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Poland has also formally apologized for the slaughter of Jews, and Italy and Finland have paid reparations, but other nations have been less forthcoming . François Mitterand consistently claimed France owed no apologies, though in 1995 Jacques Chirac recognized French responsibility in deporting Jews.
U.N. resolutions require that sanctions remain in place until Iraq destroys its capacity for creating chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons . Last December, the United Nations eased up on the sanctions, allowing Iraq to sell $2-billion worth of oil every six months on the condition that the profits go toward food for Iraq's people and war reparations to Kuwait.
While information is comparatively fresh and large numbers of the survivors are still around, why not institute similar reparations to be paid by Russia to victims of the Gulag?
Switzerland has recently offered words of conciliation and established a reparations fund, but many Jews feel it has yet to make full amends for its role as banker to the Nazi party.
It was the repository for gold coins paid by the French as reparations after the Franco-Prussian War, and returned as part payment for reparations following World War I. The Heimatmuseum (Local History Museum) in the Zitadelle contains an exhibition of Jewish gravestones, found during excavations here, which date back to the 13th century.