VOL. XLII

No 47

22-November-1999

IRAQ

Security Council Extends Oil-For-Food Program For TwoWeeks; Talks On New UN Iraq Policy Prove Slow And Difficult

The Security Council has encountered difficulties in rollingover the oil-for-food program for another six-month period. Instead, a draft resolutionwas tabled at the Council on 18 November extending the program for a two-weekperiod to enable differences between the US and Russia to be resolved and tocanvass Russian support for the British "omnibus"...