‘Oil-for-Food’ Program Extended Six Months
From Times Wire Reports
IRAQ
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Iraq and the United Nations extended the “oil-for-food” program--allowing the nation to sell oil to buy humanitarian supplies--for six months, despite a new overhaul of sanctions, U.N. officials said.
Iraq had accepted the new regulations, which aim to streamline delivery of civilian goods to Iraq but also require U.N. reviews of a 300-page list of supplies that could have military uses.
Technically, the new memorandum is based on a 1996 program setting up the food plan, an exception to the sanctions imposed after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
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