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Tuesday, January 20, 1998 Published at 11:14 GMT

World: Monitoring

Iraqi TV reports funerals of children, blames sanctions
image: [ Iraq has threatened to end cooperation with UN inspectors unless sanctions are lifted ]

Iraq has threatened to end cooperation with UN inspectors unless sanctions are lifted

Iraqi television says the funerals have taken place in Baghdad of 73 children whose deaths were caused by the economic embargo against Iraq.

"With eyes full of tears, with angry hearts, and with shouts of Allahu Akbar, the Baghdad masses this morning buried 73 children, who died as a result of the reckless US insistence on prolonging the blockade imposed on Iraq," the television said on Monday.

It gave no further details.

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On Saturday Iraqi leader Saddam Husayn warned Baghdad would stop all co-operation with UN weapons inspectors unless seven-year-old sanctions imposed on Iraq were lifted soon. He was speaking on Iraqi TV in an address to mark the seventh anniversary of the Gulf war.

BBC Monitoring (http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk), based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.

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