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A DECLARATION IN OPPOSITION TO THE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ WE, THE UNDERSIGNED CITIZENS & RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BELIEVE that economic sanctions, which prevent or otherwise hamper a nation's ability to provide for the public health, unjustly target civilians. WE NOTE that the economic sanctions on Iraq have resulted in serious shortages of food, clean water, and medicine. Water and sanitation systems have collapsed, spreading disease. United Nations agencies estimate over one million fatalities, mostly children under the age of 5. Even under the Oil for Food program, sanctions have resulted in the deaths of approximately 250 people each day and over 90,000 each year [UNICEF April '98]. Thus sanctions are equivalent to violence, sowing the seeds of enmity, war and division. WE THEREFORE CALL UPON the United Nations General Assembly to ban all such economic sanctions forthwith, as they are themselves weapons of mass destruction. WE URGE the United Nations Security Council to respect International Law, including laws relating to the treatment and protection of civilian populations. Since restrictions on Iraqi oil sales severely limit Iraq's ability to purchase adequate food, medicine and necessities vital for the repair of the civil infrastructure, WE URGE all UN member states to immediately end compliance with the economic sanctions on Iraq. WE APPLAUD the 43 U.S. Representatives who signed Congressman John Conyer's letter calling on President Clinton to de-link economic sanctions from military sanctions. WE CALL UPON the U.S. Congress to immediately hold fair and objective hearings on the humanitarian impact of the UN sanctions. Furthermore, WE URGE Congress and the President to immediately end the ongoing economic sanctions against the people of Iraq.