VOL. XLVI

No 30

28-July-2003

IRAQ

US Abandons Idea Of Oil Advisory Board

MEES learns that the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) has abandoned the idea of an oil advisory board for Iraq and opted instead to have Philip Carroll, the chairman of the board, to act as senior adviser to the CPA on the Iraqi oil sector. Mr Carroll will also continue functioning as the interlocutor between the CPA and the Ministry of Oil. Mr Carroll has been in Iraq for over two months and has been coordinating...