VOL. XLIV

No 36

3-September-2001

IRAQ

UN Is Ill-Equipped To Administer Smart Sanctions, Says Former Official

The UN is ill-equipped toadminister smart sanctions on Iraq of the type being proposed by the US and UK,according to Paul Conlon, who worked on the Iraq Sanctions Committee from 1990to 1995. In a recently published history of the committee*, Dr Conlon says theproblem with smart sanctions is that they require much better conceptualization,administration, and execution than the relatively...