VOL. XXXIX 

No. 41 

8-July-1996

IRAQ

US Rejects Iraqi Distribution Plan 

In a move which was hardly unexpected, the US has rejected the distribution plan for humanitarian supplies submitted to the UN Secretary General by Iraq on 27 June. Indeed the surprising thing about the US decision was not the fact that Washington objected to the plan, but that the Americans made their rejection known on 1 July even before the UN Secretary General, Dr. Butros Ghali, and his staff had...