VOL. XLVI

No 24

16-June-2003

IRAQ

Soros Foundation To Monitor Use Of Iraq Oil Revenues, Issues Iraq Reconstruction Report

Hungarian-born US financier and philanthropist George Soros said in Azerbaijan on 29 May that his foundation, which supports the New York City-based Open Society Institute (OSI) would establish a body to monitor the use of revenues earned through the sale of Iraqi oil. Speaking during a conference in Baku at which he called for transparency in Azerbaijans oil industry, Mr Soros...