VOL. XXXIII

NO. 16

22-JANUARY-1990

Iraq

Iraq Denies Stopping Oil Shipments to Turkey Over Euphrates Issue

Iraq denied on 12 January Turkish press reports that it would cut off oilsupplies to Turkey because of the latter's reduction of the Euphrates riverwater flow. One of Iraq's major crude oil export outlets passes through Turkeywith a throughput capacity of 1.65mn b/d. Iraq is Turkey's main crude oilsupplier in 1990, providing 7mn tons of crude - out of a total import of 22mntons - plus 300,000...