VOL. XXXIX

No. 8

20-November-1995

IRAQ

Iraq Rejects Limited Oil Sales Resolution, Calls For Substantive Revisions

The Iraqi Government daily al-Jumhuriyah rejected in an editorial on 14 November Security Council resolution 986 on limited oil sales, and demanded that revisions in the text concerning the country's sovereignty should first be made before Baghdad could consider accepting the plan. The editorial was published a week after UN Secretary General Butros Ghali handed Iraq's...