[CPEO-MEF] Miami Herald: Panama looks to U.N. for help

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Miami Herald: Panama looks to U.N. for help

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Published Saturday, September 30, 2000, in the Miami Herald

Panama looks to U.N. for help Country, U.S. military locked in dispute over
contamination UNITED NATIONS -- (AFP) -- Panama said Friday that it had
asked the United Nations for support in a dispute over the contamination of
large parts of its territory by the U.S. armed forces.

Panama's ambassador to the United Nations, Ramón Morales Quijano, said he
had asked the U.N. General Assembly to take up the dispute in debates on
land mines, chemical and biological weapons, and on the environment.

Morales quoted a note from Panama's foreign minister, José Miguel Alemán,
which said the United States had failed to meet treaty obligations to clean
land that it had used for military exercises in the Panama Canal zone. The
United States handed the canal back to Panama eight months ago.

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