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Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris

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Revue <strong>de</strong> Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro <strong>de</strong> la Prensa-Basm Öz<strong>et</strong>i<br />

Turkish Daily News SUNI>AY.APRII.I3.I997'<br />

UNsends<br />

120 food<br />

observers<br />

to N. Iraq<br />

Food rations:<br />

Distribution of flour<br />

to start next week<br />

Baghdad-<br />

Reuters<br />

• The United Nations has<br />

sent 20 observers to the<br />

three Kurdish provinces in<br />

northern Iraq to monitor the<br />

distribution of food. and<br />

medicine there, a U.N. official<br />

in Baghdad said on<br />

Saturday.<br />

Eric FaIt, spokesman for<br />

Iraq's U.N. coordinator, said<br />

four international staff have<br />

.hea<strong>de</strong>d north. tö oversee the.<br />

handing out of flour ration to<br />

Iraqi Kurds.<br />

....Foodstuffs bought un<strong>de</strong>r<br />

Iraq's oil-far-food <strong>de</strong>al with<br />

the United Nations have been<br />

piling up.<br />

.'<br />

Iraq; u~<strong>de</strong>r U.N ..s~nctlOns<br />

'for invadmg Kuwait m 1990,<br />

began expo'rting oillast '<br />

December un<strong>de</strong>r the so-called<br />

oil-far-food <strong>de</strong>al allowing it<br />

II' c;ell '52 hillion worth of _<br />

l:I:llll~over six -lllonlhs 10 imporlluainlv<br />

Inoll anti 1I1~tlidne_.Laie' iüst llIonlh the<br />

J.~a41.£\1\ l'IllI~lcnl,bcgan distributing the<br />

tust toad rai IOns 1/1 areas un<strong>de</strong>r its con-<br />

Irol. ,<br />

Th.e distrib.ution.o! supplies in the<br />

Kurdish provinces at Dahouk Arbil '<br />

and Sulaimaniya, currently o~lsi<strong>de</strong> the<br />

~clllrai gUV~fJII11CIIl ~ulllrol, IS sulely a<br />

U.N. responsibility.<br />

Falt said the distribution of flour<br />

rations would start in earnest in northern<br />

Iraq next week. He said new ration<br />

cards for the area were being printed.<br />

He said the U.N. inten<strong>de</strong>d to <strong>de</strong>ploy<br />

20 out of its 151 observers in northern<br />

areas. the whole uperation emanating'<br />

from the oil <strong>de</strong>al is bein~ carried out<br />

un<strong>de</strong>r strict U.N. supervision.<br />

Iraq's revenue from the partial oil<br />

sales will be about $1 ..3 'bi/Jion-after<br />

funnelling 30 percent for

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