VOL. XXXVI

NO. 48

30-AUGUST-1993

IRAQ

Baghdad Sells Oil To The Kurds; UN Cuts Funding To The North

Baghdad has started selling petroleum products to the Kurdish population innorthern Iraq, thereby slightly easing the embargo it had imposed over two yearsago when it lost control over the area. On the surface, an agreement has beenreached between private companies on both sides, whereby gasoline, kerosene andgasoil are delivered from Mosul and Kirkuk to the northern areas controlled bythe Kurds. In...