‘Oil for Food’ Program Is Extended Six Months
Iraq agreed to a new six-month phase of the U.N. “oil for food” humanitarian program.
Iraq’s U.N. ambassador, Mohammed Douri, signed the agreement extending the program until May 30, U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said.
The program was created in 1996 to ease the suffering of 22 million Iraqis living under sanctions imposed after Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. It allows Iraq to sell unlimited amounts of oil to buy food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies, and to pay war reparations.
Sanctions cannot be lifted until U.N. inspectors report that Iraq has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction.
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