Iraqi authorities criticize UN Security Council
Iraq-UN, Politics, 5/19/1999

The Iraqi authorities accused the UN Security Council of confiscating Iraqi funds specified for buying humanitarian supplies, and demanded the halt of any sectors paying compensation for the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 from the revenues of petroleum payments according to the agreement ratified with the United Nations.

An official source in the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said today that issuing the Security Council to keep 30% of the funds of Iraqi petroleum payments as compensation for the war forms a great obstruction toward fulfilling the basic needs of Iraq for food and medicine.

The source added that hundreds of millions of dollars that were taken from Iraqi funds since the beginning of the oil-for-food program in 1997 could have contributed to carrying out this program correctly.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf complained in his message to AL's secretary general that the sums estimated for the war compensation were not reached due to the lessened ability of Iraq to export petroleum and low petroleum prices.

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