MERIP Media Resource List, July 16, 2004
AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS on the following topics:
- General Assembly session on ICJ advisory opinion
- Investigations into Oil for Food Program
IAN WILLIAMS
Ian Williams is a New York-based writer covering the United
Nations and world affairs. He is the UN correspondent for
the Nation and has appeared on radio and TV shows across the
world, including BBC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX and CBC. Williams' latest
book, just out, is "Deserter: Bush's War Against Military
Families, Veterans and His Own Past" from Nation Books.
Commenting on tomorrow’s General Assembly session, "The
GA will certainly reaffirm the findings it requested from
the international court. Those who attack the Court for its
July 9 opinion on the wall are calling into question the UN
Charter and the whole foundation of international law and
humanitarian conventions and treaties. Moreover, counter to
what is alleged, it is not true that the Court did not consider
the issue of terrorism. It did so in some depth -- and concluded
that if Israel wanted to build the wall, it could do so entirely
legally, on its own side of the Green Line. However, it could
not do so on illegally occupied territory. Mr. Sharon, tear
down this wall!"
JOY GORDON
Joy Gordon is the author of numerous articles about sanctions
on Iraq and teaches at Fairfield University. Commenting on
the investigations into corruption in the Oil for Food program,
Gordon said: "In the late 1990s and the early days of
the current Bush administration, most of the debate over the
Oil for Food program focused on its limitations as a remedy
for Iraq's humanitarian crisis. Today's spotlight on allegations
of corruption has not only served the right-wing well in undermining
the UN's credibility for a future role in Iraq, but these
accusations have also obscured the central role of the US
in many of the failings that are now at the center of the
controversy."
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