VOL. XLVI

No 44

3-November-2003

IRAQ

Insecurity Hampering UN Oil-For-Food Handover To CPA

The poor state of security in Iraq is hampering the efforts of the UNs Office of the Iraq Program (OIP) to hand its operations over to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) by the deadline of 21 November, as set out in UN Security Council Resolution 1483, according to the OIPs Executive Director Benon Sevan. In a briefing to the Security Council on 28 October, Mr Sevan said that handing over a...