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Article: IRAQ: BAGHDAD'S ISOLATION IS ENDING, SLOWLY
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- June 6, 1997
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Dilip Hiro
Inter Press Service English News Wire
06-06-1997
LONDON, June 5 (IPS) -- Granted a six months extension of its
"food-for-oil" deal by the United Nations last night, Iraq is
looking forward to the day when sanctions will be lifted once and
for all. And it is finding support in several previously hostile
quarters.
The U.N. Security Council last night extended a deal allowing
sanctions-squeezed Iraq to sell limited quantities of its oil to
buy food and medicine. According to the U.N. aid coordinator in
Iraq, of the 800,000 tons of food delivered, more than 600,000 tons
have been distributed to the Iraqi people so far.
But Iraq is already looking further ahead, as is the six-member
Gulf ...