UN Sanctions Committee ratifies Jordanian contracts to export necessities to Iraq

The UN Security Council Sanctions Committee agreed to eight new contracts allowing Jordanian companies to export humanitarian goods to Iraq in accordance with the oil-for-food deal, which came into effect in December 1996.

The eight contracts ratified are valued at $10,924,960. A source in Ministry of Industry and Trade told the Jordanian News Agency, Petra, that the total number of contracts belonging to Jordanian companies were 47 with a total value of $77 million.

The contracts include providing Iraq with human medicine for $7.38 million, veterinary medicine worth $387,000, desks and blackboards, plastic pipelines and others supplies.