| Description | Folder of presscuttings and telex reports relating to the relaxation of the UN oil embargo for humanitarian reasons and for the payment of war reparation, with details of Iraq's response. These include discussion of the forthcoming Iraqi-UN talks in Vienna (January 1992), photocopied pages from the Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (December 1991), Middle East Economic Survey (November 1991) and Energy Compass (October 1991) on the negotiations between Iraq and the UN with related cuttings and press reports, the text of UN Resolutions 705 (Compensation Payments) and 706 (Iraqi oil sales), reports of the UN decision in August 1991 to allow Iraq to sell $1.6 billion worth of oil to buy food and humanitarian supplies and Iraq's rejection of the proposal, discussions of reopening the Turkish-Iraqi oil export pipeline, an Middle East Economic Survey report on Iraq's request for a five-year moratorium on reparation payments (May 1991), the raising of the UN food embargo to avert a possible famine, a Wall Street Journal article on poverty in postwar Baghdad (July 1991) and several cuttings from the Baghdad Observer relaying the contents of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan's UN reports on humanitarian needs. |