Iraq Complains to U.N. on Assets Ban
The government complained to a U.N. envoy Wednesday that it is unable to buy urgently needed food and drugs because its coffers are padlocked by sanctions.
Cabinet ministers told Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan that billions of dollars of assets remain frozen by U.N. sanctions, imposed after the invasion of Kuwait in August last year, and that young and old are dying needlessly, officials said.
Sadruddin, representing U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, is in Baghdad to seek the extension of aid arrangements, due to expire at year’s end, allowing U.N. agencies such as the U.N. Children’s Fund to operate in Iraq.
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