VOL. XXXIX

No. 33

13-May-1996

IRAQ

Iraqi-UN Oil Talks Reach Make-Or-Break Point

As MEES went to press on Friday evening, only one thing could be said with any confidence about the Iraqi-UN oil talks, namely that a make-or-break point is now in sight. If a solution to the intensely complex bundle of technical and political issues in dispute between the two sides is not reached within the next 10 days or so - allowing for a possible recess to allow UN Secretary General Butros Ghali to...