VOL. XXXIX

No. 54

7-October-1996

IRAQ

Humanitarian Oil Sales Held Up By Political Quagmire In Northern Iraq

The UN Secretariat is slowly moving ahead with the necessary measures to implement resolution 986 on humanitarian oil sales by Iraq despite the delays brought about by the 31 August political changes in northern Iraq. The UN coordinator in Iraq Gualtiero Fulcheri visited the Kurdish areas, met the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) leader Mas'ud Barzani, and reported positively about the...