VOL. XXXIII

NO. 39

2-JULY-1990

Iraq/Syria

Ankara Meeting Fails to Reach Agreement on Euphrates RiverDistribution

The Ministers of Agriculture of Turkey, Syria and Iraq failed to reach anagreement at their meeting in Ankara on 26-28 June on the distribution of thewaters of the Euphrates river. Turkey proposed to regulate the flow of wateraccording to seasonal needs at an annual level of 15.768bn cu.ms. downstream, orequivalent to the current flow of around 500 cu. ms./second downstream, byproviding...