VOL. XXXVII

NO. 41

11-JULY-1994

OAPEC

OAPEC TribunalDrops Iraqi Suit Against Syria For Pipeline Closure

The JudicialTribunal of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) ruledat a meeting held at the organization's headquarters in Cairo on 19 June that ithas no jurisdiction in the suit filed by Iraq against Syria in 1982 for thelatter's closure of the crude oil pipeline linking Iraq's northern oilfields tothe Mediterranean terminals at Banias in Syria and Tripoli in Lebanon....