Ban Ki-moon outlines options to wind up oil-for-food programme for Iraq
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT August 7, 2008 UNITED NATIONS: - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has outlined options for resolving outstanding issues involved in winding up the controversial oil-for-food programme for Iraq.
The oil-for-food programme, under which a sanctions-bound Iraqi government of the late Saddam Hussein was allowed to use monitored oil sales revenue for humanitarian purchases, was phased out in 2003 under a Security Council resolution lifting sanctions on the country.
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