We wish to manifest to you our support and appreciation for the latest successful negotiations of yours between the Security Council and the government of Iraq which resulted in a peaceful solution to the immediate crisis. Besides this letter of support from our International Headquarters, we include a recent letter directed to you from our members from 16 countries in Latin America gathered together in a regional congress in San Jose, Costa Rica. The civil population already devastated after seven years of global sanctions obviously would have been the direct victims of any military attack. The UN inspection team has confirmed that Iraq has fulfilled the majority of the requisites for the destruction of its arms. These sanctions, the most comprehensive in history, have already caused the death of more a million two hundred thousand Iraqis and so we believe it is time to lift all sanctions.
Peace is the fruit of justice.
We wish you success and we support all your initiatives as Secretary General as well as those of other institutions and agencies of the United Nations that promote true justice for our Iraqi sisters and brothers today.