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Article: Over 1,700 Contracts Shelved by U.N. Sanctions Committee: Iraq
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- May 3, 2001
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The United Nations Sanctions Committee has put on hold 1,710
contracts Iraq signed with other countries under the U.N. oil-for-
food program since 1996, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA)
reported Thursday.
Of the total blocked contracts with a value of 3.6 billion U.S.
dollars, 1,161 contracts were for humanitarian supplies and 549
contracts for Iraq's oil industry spare parts and equipment, INA
said.
Iraq condemned the U.S. and Britain, the only members at the U.
N. Sanctions Committee to have ever put ...