VOL. XXXVII

NO. 32

9-MAY-1994

Iraq

Boutros Ghali Requests Security Council Authority To Track Iraqi Crude OilFunds Through Private Oil Companies

UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali has requested that the UN SecurityCouncil grant him the authority to approach the international oil industry inorder to ascertain the whereabouts of money due to be paid to Iraq for crude oillifted shortly before the invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 and the subsequentimposition of financial sanctions.

In a...