A/RES/50/191 Page 3 Deploring the refusal of the Government of Iraq to United Nations human rights mechanisms, in particular by visit of the Special Rapporteur to Iraq and allowing the rights monitors throughout Iraq pursuant to the relevant General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights, cooperate with the receiving a return stationing of human resolutions of the 1. Takes note with appreciation of the interim report on the situation of human rights in Iraq 5/ submitted by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Iraq and the observations, conclusions and recommendations contained therein; 2. Expresses its strong condemnation of the massive and extremely grave violations of human rights for which the Government of Iraq is responsible, resulting in an all-pervasive order of repression and oppression which is sustained by broad-based discrimination and widespread terror; 3. Expresses its condemnation with regard to the violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, in particular of: (a) Summary and arbitrary executions, including political killings; (b) The widespread routine practice of systematic torture in its most cruel forms; (c) The enactment and implementation of decrees prescribing cruel and unusual punishment, namely mutilation, as a penalty for certain offences and the abuse and diversion of medical-care services for the purpose of such mutilations; (d) Enforced or involuntary disappearances, routinely practised arbitrary arrests and detention and consistent and routine failure to respect due process and the rule of law; (e) Suppression of freedom of thought, information, expression, association and assembly, through fear of arrest, imprisonment and other sanctions, including the death penalty, as well as harsh limitations to freedom of movement; 4. Urges the Government of Iraq to cooperate with the United Nations with a view to arranging for the export of oil in order to purchase essential food and medical supplies for humanitarian purposes, as authorized by the Security Council in its resolution 986 (1995); 5. Strongly condemns the continued refusal of the Government of Iraq to take advantage of resources available to alleviate the suffering of the people, which includes long-term disabilities of millions of people and the death of many thousands more; 6. Again expresses its special alarm at the policies of the Government of Iraq, which discriminate between regions and prevent the equitable enjoyment of basic foodstuffs and medical supplies, and calls upon Iraq, which has sole responsibility in this regard, to take steps to cooperate 5/ See A/50/734. /...