Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 46

15-November-2004

Iraqi Oil Policy Focuses On Immediate Problems, Postponing Long-Term Plans

MEES learns from authoritative sources that the full attention of the Iraqi oil authorities at present is focused on meeting daily challenges and problems, thereby delaying proposals for undertaking major reforms to a later period. Proposals to this effect made by senior government officials over the past few months are now being relegated to the back-burner,...