Iraq will ask the UN to set aside part of its oil revenue for the Palestinians, the country's president Saddam Hussein said Saturday.
"We want a memorandum to be sent to the United Nations and the security council asking that a quota of the revenue from the 'oil for food' programme be set aside for the Palestinian people to support them," the Iraqi leader said after a cabinet meeting.
The programme allows Iraq, which has been under UN sanctions in the wake of its invasion of Kuwait in 1990, to export crude oil to buy in exchange essential items, under international control.—AFP.
©--Agence France Presse.
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