21.   Discontent has grown as U.N. trade sanctions have caused tremendous hardship.

22.   Ever since, the sanctions have caused horrible suffering.

23.   Hamadi said the sanctions had caused widespread hardship in Iraq and resulted in large-scale malnutrition and death of children.

24.   Iraq says the sanctions have caused enormous suffering among its people.

25.   Iraq says the sanctions have caused the deaths of more than one million people.

26.   Iraq claims the sanctions have caused shortages of food, medicine, and the equipment and spare parts needed to fuel its industry.

27.   Iraq insists it is complying fully with U.N. Security Council resolutions and points to the widespread suffering it says the sanctions have caused among the Iraqi people.

28.   It said the U.N. offer was intended to deflect criticism by Iraq and other countries that the sanctions were causing Iraqis undue hardship.

29.   It has scheduled consultations for Wednesday on the impact new sanctions might cause.

30.   Mubarak has repeatedly expressed concern for the hardships the sanctions have caused the Iraqi people.