VOL. XLV

No 43

28-October-2002

Arab Press Review

(MEES Translation)

Claims On Arab Oil

The following is an extract from a column in the Lebanese daily al-Nahar by its publisher, Ghassan Tueni, entitled Oil Wars:

A small item in Le Monde from its correspondent in Moscow sheds light of an important kind on the deluge of reports about the expected Iraq war and in particular what will happen after it: Moscow is negotiating with Washington about what has come to be called the day after the war and the...