VOL. XXXII

NO. 9

5-DECEMBER-1988

IRAQ

Joint Iraqi-Soviet Committee Meets Next Week

The joint Iraqi-Soviet Committee, headed by the Oil Ministers of the twocountries, will meet in Baghdad on 12 December. The committee, the largest ofits kind between Iraq and a foreign country, handles oil, technical, trade,scientific, research, energy, agriculture, irrigation and manpower issues.

The value of trade between Iraq and the Soviet Union in 1988 is estimated tobe around $2bn, an increase of $200mn over...