UN prioritizes $1 billion more in food deliveries for Iraq

Originally published August 19, 2003

Food contracts worth more than $1 billion have been prioritized for delivery to Iraq in the past week following consultations involving the United States-run Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraqi experts and the United Nations, the UN Office of the Iraq Program (OIP) announced yesterday.

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