VOL. XXXIX

No. 19

5-February-1996

IRAQ

Iraq Sends Positive Signals As Humanitarian Oil Sales Talks Get Underway

Unlike the two previous rounds of negotiations on limited oil sales between Iraq and the United Nations in 1992 and 1993 when the signals from Baghdad were guarded in the extreme, this time around the Iraqi leadership seems eager to strike a positive note about the forthcoming talks with the UN Secretariat on the implementation of the oil sales plan which are scheduled to...