VOL. XLIII

No. 09

28-February-2000

IRAQ

Markets Watchful Of New Iraq-UN Confrontation

While market concerns are currently focused on future OPEC production policies, two events in the coming weeks involving Iraq are likely to restore that country to the headlines and to affect oil price movements: the Secretary- Generals report to the UN on the state of the Iraqi oil industry on 10 March, and the report to be delivered in mid-April by Hans Blix, the new chairman of the UN Monitoring,...