Iraq
June 17, 2000
An official Iraqi daily called Saturday for OPEC unity in the face of pressure from the United States, which it accused of working against the interes
June 16, 2000
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged Iraq on Thursday to make extra effort to find and return archives, military equipment and cultural items removed
Iraqi president Saddam Hussein said Thursday the World Bank is a "cancer" gnawing at the Third World, the official INA news agency reported. "Economis
June 14, 2000
An official Iraqi newspaper on Wednesday warned fellow OPEC member states against falling into the American "trap" of hiking production to lower world
June 13, 2000
Iraq's President Saddam Hussein has given instructions to hire the "best foreign coach" for the national team, without specifying what nationality wou
Iraq exported 8.285 billion dollars worth of crude oil under UN supervision in the recently ended 180-day phase of its oil-for-food program, the Unite
June 12, 2000
Iraq asked the United Nations on Sunday to free up $400 million from the surplus in an escrow account to purchase humanitarian supplies for the Iraqi
June 10, 2000
A UN Security Council extension of a humanitarian program in Iraq, secured after acrimonious debate, drew criticism Friday by some Iraqis who receive
By Munir K. Nasser Washington, DC Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas R. Pickering was heckled and booed by an angry Arab American a
June 9, 2000
The Security Council extended the UN's Iraq oil-for-food program for 180 days late Thursday in a unanimous vote that belied sharp differences over its
June 7, 2000
Saudi Arabia's defense minister, Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz, Tuesday called on Iraq to conform to UN resolutions if it wanted sanctions against it t
Britain distributed a compromise proposal Tuesday to extend the UN humanitarian program in Iraq and add some enhancements to improve the delivery of g
June 6, 2000
Iraq will continue to export crude after the seventh half-yearly phase of the UN oil-for-food program runs out on June 8th, an official Iraqi oil mini
June 5, 2000
The former head of the United Nations arms inspection team in Iraq, Richard Butler, has strongly criticized the sanctions imposed on Baghdad since the
June 3, 2000
Iraq is not cooperating with the UN commission charged with inspecting its weapons, according to a report from the chief UN arms inspector, quoted by