U.N. Will Monitor Jordan Compliance

The U.N. sanctions committee has told Jordan that it had agreed to its request for an envoy to check Amman’s adherence to a world economic embargo against Iraq, its main trading partner.

A senior Jordanian official said the U.N. office in Jordan will base a representative at Ruweished, Jordan’s eastern border checkpoint with Iraq, to monitor the flow of goods across the frontier.

“We asked the U.N. to carry out the monitoring at Ruweished border because we got fed up from some Western embassies who stationed their people there to do the watching and were sometimes offending Jordan’s sovereignty,” he said.