World IN BRIEF : EGYPT : Mubarak Calls for Lifting Sanctions
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
President Hosni Mubarak, chief among Arab leaders aligned against Saddam Hussein during the Persian Gulf crisis, said in an interview published in Cairo that he wants economic sanctions against Iraq lifted for the good of the Iraqi people. But he said in the state-owned magazine Al Mussawar that the move should come only after world leaders devise checks on Hussein’s ambitions. The remarks reflect a turnabout in Mubarak’s support for continuing the sanctions imposed by the U.N. Security Council after Iraq invaded Kuwait in August, 1990.
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