The Cairo Conference against U.S. hegemony and war on Iraq and in solidarity with Palestine (later: Popular Campaign for the Support of Resistance in Palestine and Iraq and Against Globalization), generally known simply as Cairo Anti-war Conference, is an anti-war and anti-neo-liberalism conference held regularly since 2002 in Cairo, Egypt.
Though the Egyptian government was formally against the Iraq war (See Governments' pre-war positions on invasion of Iraq), relations between it and the conference are strained by the fact that Mubarak's regime receives funding from the U.S.A and that the regime fears popular movements which may grow to challenge its dictatorship.
In regard to escalating American pressure on Iran and Syria, the conference agreed on an international day of solidarity with Iran and Syria on the 6th of May 2006, an ambition that was reiterated regarding Iran in a separate call for "international coordinated action" that was attached to the declaration.
Benon Sevan, the Executive Director of the UN Office of the Iraq Programme, drew attention to the dilemma in a briefing to the Security Council on 21 September last year: "On the one hand, everyone is calling on OPEC to increase the export of oil.
In mid-November, Iraq raised the stakes further, and demanded that all contracting companies pay a surcharge of 50 cents (ironically, the subdivision of the dollar, not the euro) per barrel of purchased oil, stating that failure to do so would exclude companies from further oil deals.
Sanctions were imposed on Iraq with the purpose of annihilating Saddam's aggressive capacity, so that countries in the region and the Kurds and Shiites of Iraq are no longer under threat.
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