VOL. XLII

No 49

6-December-1999

IRAQ

Diplomatic Poker At UNSC In New York Keeps Oil Market Guessing

Once again, diplomatic poker games over Iraq policy at theUN Security Council in New York have been playing havoc with world oil markets.So far, apart from byzantine maneuvers in the background, nothing concrete hasreally happened during the past week except for the negative probability, at MEESpress time on Friday, 3 December, of the passage of US-sponsored resolutionproviding for a further...