The warehouse is stocked with hundreds of tons of food and had been used as a distribution center under the U.N. oil-for-food program.
Blair said EU nations agreed that the U.N. oil-for-food program should be restarted and that Iraq's oil riches should be used to build a prosperous post-Saddam nation.
Chalabi said the Coalition Provisional Authority is unhappy with his demands for Iraq's provisional government to be given full control of the Iraqi army after the June 30 handover and for control of the investigation of fraud in the U.N. oil-for-food program.
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The U.N. created the oil-for-food program as a loophole in post-Gulf War sanctions, allowing Iraq to sell oil so Baghdad could purchase food, medicine and other humanitarian needs.
Security Council to protect Khartoum, pledging to veto any U.N. bid to impose an oil embargo on Sudan.
Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh backed Blair's remarks, pointing to evidence that Saddam was diverting money from the U.N. food-for-oil humanitarian program to buy new weapons.
Ambassador Rice, you said something to the effect that we have not actively discussed oil at the U.N.
The U.N. was due to discuss the oil for food program Tuesday.
"This is the worst time we've ever had in the business, " says Matt Bjornson, third-generation co-owner of Bjornson Oil Company in Cavalier, N.
The U.N. is to discuss this week extending the oil-for-food programme but could instead adopt a U.S. backed British plan for 'smart' sanctions. which would intend to target military sales while allowing more goods to be legally sold to Iraq.
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Since the war Putin has also called for an international presence in Iraq and for proof that weapons of mass destruction do not exist in the country before passing a resolution which would lift U.N. sanctions against Iraq and bring to an end the oil-for-food program.
In addition, if U.N. sanctions are lifted, the naval maritime intercept program to monitor oil smuggling out of Iraq would not be needed.
According to a 2005 Senate subcommittee report, Picco provided his services on a number of occasions from 1997 to 2003--overlapping with his Dialogue appointment as a U.N. special representative and undersecretary-general--as a consultant on Oil-for-Food to Bayoil, a company owned by Houston oil man David Chalmers.
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The staggering Iraq Oil-for-Food scandal has implicated senior members of the U.N. leadership including, it would appear, Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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But the current mix of an ever-greedier U.N. with less and less oversight has the makings of scandals ahead that will dwarf Oil-for-Food.
No one since the days of the Oil-for-Food scandal has yet explained who actually enforces compliance with U.N. sanctions by all 192 U.N. member states--and their endlessly proliferating front companies.
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The reward Iraq now has been encouraged to expect is the lifting of the oil export embargo, which was meant to force Iraq not only to give access to U.N. inspectors but also to comply with other important provisions of the cease-fire agreement that ended the Gulf War.
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