Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 6

07-February-2005

Iraq Must Focus On Domestic Priorities, Not Exports, Says Issam Al-Chalabi

The priority for Iraqs first post-elections government must be to address the serious shortage of petroleum products for the domestic market and concentrate on oilfield rehabilitation thus abandoning the current focus on trying to increase exports, former Iraqi oil minister Issam al-Chalabi said on 3 February in aMEES interview. Mr Chalabi is now an oil...