To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his oral answer of 24 February 1998, Official Report, columns 182–83, on Iraq, which of the Arab ambassadors whom he met on 23 February expressed the gratitude of their Government for the British and American stance on the threat of military action against Iraq. [32242]
The Ambassadors acknowledged the key role which the UK had played in the success of the UN Secretary-General's mission which, we hope, marks the resumption of full Iraqi co-operation with UNSCOM. It is also widely recognised, in the region and elsewhere, that this would not have been possible without the threat of force.
To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his oral answers to the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) of 24 February 1998, Official Report, column 184, and to the hon. Member for North-East Derbyshire (Mr. Barnes), Official Report, column 186, on the opposition in Iraq, if he will list the organisations (a) to which he referred and (b) with which the Minister of State has been in contact (i) in Iraq and (ii) based outside Iraq. [32245]
The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett) has met representatives of the following Iraqi organisations:
- Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
- Islamic Movement of Iraqi Kurdistan
- Assyrian Democratic Movement.
- Iraqi National Congress
- Iraqi National Accord
- Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq
- Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy Movement
- Islamic Accord Movement
- National Reform Movement
- Association of Iraqi Democrats
- Iraqi Democratic Party.