A British government report accusing Iraq of systematic torture, arbitrary killings and ethnic persecution is "full of lies", Iraq said today.
"The British Prime Minister Tony Blair has delivered another of his statements full of erroneous information, accusations, injustice and lies against Iraq, its people and its leadership," a foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement.
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Mr Blair had given "false witness (and) ignored the UN mechanisms with which Iraq cooperates," he added.
The spokesman said "the criminal bombardments carried out by the aircraft of Blair and his master Bush are a flagrant violation of all human rights".
The ministry, which did not respond to specific points in the British report, stressed that Baghdad "reserves the right to reply in detail to the communique full of lies from Blair".
The statement said that inspections by UN experts of some of the sites highlighted in the British arms dossier had "revealed the lies that public opinon has become used to hearing from Blair".
Amnesty International secretary general Ms Irene Khan criticized the report yesterday as "a cold and calculated manipulation of the work of human rights activists".
AFP