VOL.XXXVI

NO.49

6-SEPTEMBER-1993

IRAQ

No Opening For Iraqi Oil SalesIn Iraq-UN Negotiations

As predicted in MEES (30 August),thevarious meetings betweenUNand Iraqi officials over the past week - between UN Secretary General Butros Ghali and Iraqi DeputyPremier

Tariq 'Aziz in Geneva and between UN and Iraqi expert teams on disarmament issues in New York - have failed to make any

impression on the current total impasse regarding a resumption of oil sales by Iraq.

TheNewYorknegotiations which started...