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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: El Salvador: US senators urge suspension of mil aid
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- /** reg.elsalvador: 130.0 **/
- ** Topic: IPS:US Senators urge suspension **
- ** Written 12:18 pm Jan 16, 1993 by jbinder in cdp:reg.elsalvador **
- From: James Binder <jbinder>
- Subject: IPS:US Senators urge suspension
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- Copyright Inter Press Service 1993, all rights reserved. Permission to re-
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- Title: EL SALVADOR: U.S. Senators urge suspension of military aid
-
- washington, jan 14 (ips) -- two influential u.s. senators are
- urging the suspension of military aid to the government of el
- salvador which has failed to comply with the u. n.-brokered peace
- pact signed with the country's former guerrillas.
-
- in a joint letter to u.s. secretary of state lawrence
- eagleburger, democrat senators patrick leahy and christopher dodd
- expressed disappointment with the salvadorean government which
- refused to immediately act on recommendations by the 'truth
- commission' investigating war crimes.
-
- the commission found about 100 salvadorean military officials
- guilty of human rights abuses during the country's 12-year civil
- war.
-
- last week, salvadorean president alfredo cristiani told u.n.
- secretary general boutros boutros-ghali that he would retire the
- officials by may 1994. the original deadline for their removal
- from office had been set for dec. 31, 1992.
-
- the military purging has been one of the most sensitive
- conditions of the peace pact signed on jan. 16, 1992 between the
- cristiani government and the former farabundo marti national
- liberation front (fmln).
-
- ''we believe that the execution of these recommendations
- within the specified time is crucial for the future of el
- salvador,'' the senators said.
-
- leahy presides over the senatorial subcommittee on
- international economic aid while dodd heads the subcommittee for
- u.s. policies in the western hemisphere.
-
- the senators called on eagleburger to ''stop giving any
- military assistance to el salvador'', though they said it was up
- up to united nations to determine whether the peace pact had been
- complied with.
-
- they said the united states should show the salvadorean armed
- forces that they could not hope for any support unless they
- fulfilled their end of the deal.
-
- last month, david obey, who heads the foreign finance
- committee of the u.s. congress, warned cristiani that the united
- states would hold back economic aid if conditions in the peace
- treaty were not complied with. (end/ips/trd-sp/ip/mas/in/cir/93)
-
- ** End of text from cdp:reg.elsalvador **
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