The Iraqi Minister of Commerce, Mohammed Mahdi Saleh, stated that the value of exchanges between Iraq and Tunisia totaled $1.2 billion in the framework of the Oil for Food Agreement between the UN and Iraq, reported Al-Baath . The Iraqi minister added that these exchanges were stable though the oil prices declined in the 10th phase of the agreement, which resulted in nearly a 50 percent collapse in Iraqi oil revenues. — (menareport.com)
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