VOL. XLVI

No 19

12-May-2003

IRAQ

Washington Envisages US Controlling Iraqs Oil Revenue

The US has circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution aimed at lifting sanctions onIraq. While the indications are that the atmosphere in the council will be less frosty than it was before the war, Washingtons proposal that the US should control Iraqs oil revenue received an immediate and angry response from Iraqis. Intensive discussions are under way in Baghdad aimed at forming an interim Iraqi...