VOL. XXXVII

NO. 46

15-AUGUST-1994

Iraq

Iraqi Planning Minister Relieved Of Post

The Iraqi Planning Minister, Mr. Samil Majid Faraj, last week was relieved ofhis post and appointed Minister of State (without portfolio), following thepublication of a controversial report by the Ministry of Planning that theinflation rate in Iraq had reached 24,000% (sic).

Meanwhile in an apparent attempt to penalize Iraqis who had left Iraq afterthe Gulf crisis in 1990, the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council (RCC)...