VOL. XXXIV

NO. 37

17-JUNE-1991

Iraq

Turkey Rejects Iraqi Request to Reopen Oil Pipeline

Turkey last week rejected a request by Iraq to reopen the 1.6mn b/dIraq-Turkey crude oil export pipeline. After a two-day meeting in Ankara on 12and 13 June with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq 'Aziz, the Turkish ForeignMinister, Mr. Ahmet Kurtcebe, told reporters that the opening of the pipelinewas formally requested by Iraq, but that "we said this depended on thelifting of the embargo and the pipeline would...