OAPEC

Judicial Tribunal Rejects Iraq's Bid to Reopen Iraqi-Syrian Pipeline 

OAPEC's seven-member Judicial Tribunal rejected on 14 March Iraq's bid to urge Syria to reopen the Iraqi-Syrian crude oil pipeline on an urgent and temporary basis pending a final decision by the court on the matter. Iraq claimed that the continued closure of the Mediterranean pipeline was causing "increasing and irreparable damage to the Iraqi economy." The Tribunal's decision,...