MEMBERS OF ARAB MPS DELEGATION MEET UNDP REPRESENTATIVE, 2000-05-08 (photo)

Sheikh Zenati Mohameed Zenati (L), the head of a delegation of around 20 Arab MP's and Secretary of the Libyan people's General Conference (parliamentary speaker) shakes hands with the head of the U.N. Development Programme Francis Dubis (R) as the speaker of Iraqi parliament Sadoon Hamadi (C) looks on at the U.N Headquarters in Bgahdad May 8. Members of nine Arab parliaments appealed to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday to seek the immediate lifting of sanctions on Iraq which they said had amounted to genocide. The MPs are representing the assemblies of Morocco, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Algiers, Libya, Egypt, Tunisian and Palestinian areas, on a solidarity visit to Iraq, joined Iraqi deputies at a protest outside the U.N. offices in Baghdad. FK/JDP