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.
Ambassador Rice, you said something to the effect that we have not actively discussed oil at the U.N.
"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.
Rock 'n' rollers, oil up your walkers and aim them at your nearest Best Buy come Nov. 23.
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.
The U.N. was due to discuss the oil for food program Tuesday.
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The oil-marketing extravaganza was given the stamp of legitimacy by U.N.
In addition, if U.N. sanctions are lifted, the naval maritime intercept program to monitor oil smuggling out of Iraq would not be needed.
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.
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.
Finalists: Juliette Kayyem of The Boston Globe for her colorful, well reported columns on an array of issues, from women in combat to oil drilling in Alaska, and Mark Di Ionno of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.
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