VOL. XLV

No 20

20-May-2002

IRAQ

Iraq Accepts Amended Sanctions

Iraq on 16 Mayaccepted UN Security Council resolution 1409, adopted unanimously two daysearlier, rolling over the oil-for-food program for six months and introducingchanges to the economic sanctions regime that are intended to ease the flow ofcivilian goods into the country and impose stricter control on dual-use goods.While Baghdadis still insisting on the principle of sanctions being lifted rather thanamended, it had little choice...