UN sanctions committee bans Iraq from importing helicopters for agricultural purposes
Iraq, Politics, 9/20/2001

Iraq on Wednesday expressed its regret over the decision taken by the UN sanctions committee in preventing it from contracting with world companies to import helicopters serving agricultural purposes or even to maintain engines of its planes in Russia.

The Iraqi weekly al-Iqtisadi ( the economist) quoted the Iraqi ministry of agriculture secretary Basel Kamel al-Dalali as saying that the UN sanctions committee has not so far approved to contract the helicopters in order to meet the local need for using it in fighting agricultural diseases, noting that the old planes used at the meantime are no more valid and its aviation age has ended.

Worthy mentioning that Iraqi officials have repeatedly stressed that agriculture in Iraq faces great problems because of the escalation of the agricultural diseases and whose agricultural planes suffer the shortage of spare parts.

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