The Portuguese Communist Party firmly condemns the systematic bombing raids by the USA and Great-Britain against Iraq, in a clear violation of an independent State’s sovereignty and of International Law. It particularly condemns the bombing raids carried out on February 16th against the outskirts of Baghdad where numerous Iraqi citizens were injured. They constituted a disquieting assertion of the aggressive military course that the new U.S. Administration intends to give to the USA’s foreign policy.

The PCP underlines the explosive situation which exists in the Middle East, as a result of the brutal repression by Israel against the just struggle of the Palestinian people, a repression that Ariel Sharon’s government intends to intensify and the imperialist aggression against Iraq tends to aggravate.

The PCP demands that the Portuguese government unequivocally condemn the aggression against Iraq, and it appeals to the continuation of solidarity with the Palestinian people, the Iraqi people and the other Arab peoples which are victims of the Zionist and imperialist aggression.