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> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 20:22:29 EST
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> Subject: FOSG: Senegal Singer Cancels N. American Tour
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> Senegal Singer Cancels N. American Tour
>
> .c The Associated Press
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> NEW YORK (AP) - Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour has canceled his
> seven-week
> tour of North America to protest a threatened U.S.-led war on Iraq.
>
> N'Dour, who had planned to embark on a 38-city tour on March 26, issued a
> statement Friday saying a tour of the United States would be
> ``inappropriate.''
>
> ``It is my strong conviction that the responsibility for disarming Iraq
> should rest with the United Nations. As a matter of conscience I question
> the United States government's apparent intention to commence war with
> Iraq,'' said the 43-year-old singer, who is also Muslim.
>
> ``I believe that coming to America at this time would be perceived in many
> parts of the world - rightly or wrongly - as a support of this policy, and
> that, as a consequence, it is inappropriate to perform in the U.S. at this
> juncture.''
>
> The Grammy-nominated N'Dour is a superstar in Senegal, a predominantly
> Muslim country. He is also a world music star in the United States and
> Europe.
>
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