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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basin Özeti "Iraq will not back down on its demand, that is the complete lifting of the embargo," Ramadan said. He said Iraq would cooperate with the world body on inspections, but only after it lifted the sanctio~. Iraq has repeatedly said it:willn01Jlc;:ceptél new lJl'Il" a.mu; insE~(:tioI!JeéU!l,ar8UÏ!!gthéit it ~as~~~ciy destr~yed all its weapons of mass destruction. UN inspectors have been barred since the last team left in December 1998. Washir\gton and London promptly launched a four- day air campaign against Iraq after accusing it of hindering the work of the inspectors. Routine Syrian Jan oil exports cloud Iraq pipeline issue January 10, 2001 Reuters By Jonathan Leff LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Syria's crude oil export plans are back to normallevels in January after a surge in December sales raised speculation of unauthorised pipeline imports from Iraq. But market sources say extra barrels could still surface, either through additions to the programme later in the month or by Syria quietly slipping extra cargoes to discreet parties. Oil companies that buy Syrian crude said the country's Syrian 19ht programme for this month calls for some 14 to 15 standard cargoes, four lower than December when exports were some 25 to 40 percentabove the monthly average. The schedule for Syria's heavy.Souedie crude counts six lifters, although only one is taking a full80,OOO tonne stem with the remainder top-ups. Souedie plans comprise the equivalent of about three to three and a half cargoes. A normal monthly programme is about four cargoes while December's rose to almost double that. "On the surface it alllooks quite average," said one long-time lifter of Syrian oiL "But I suspect the pipeline is still flowing and extra sales are going on the quiet." IRAQ PIPELINE The additional exports last month followed the reopening of a pipeline from Iraq in November, which industry sources said Syria was using to import about 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) of Iraqi crud,e for use in their domestic refineries. This freed up the additional volumes of Syria's own crude for export, as the country is unable to increase production without diverting supplies from its plants. Other traders say the lack of extra exports means the pipeline is off line, at least for the moment. "This (cutback) would imply that the pipeline isn't flowing," said a trader with an oil major. "I think that's the case, as we asked for extra barrels and were told no." Another trader added,: "They were testing it before, but now I think they want official approval before they do more." The United Nations, which regulates Iraq's oil exports as part of sanctions imposed after the Gulf War, has not formally approved any pipeline exports to Syria although diplomats have said they would do so if Damascus asked for permission. Syrian officials have told the United Nations that the pipeline is not in operation, most recently in December when the world body pressed the issue amid reports that the country had raised its export volumes. Analysts say the United States may have ignored the exports to avoid antagonising Arab public opinion as it attempts to mediate Middle East peace talks. Meanwhile, Syria could be using a discreet intermediary to move additional cargoes. A Syrian oil industry source told Reuters that a European trading house who has been a term lifter for several years was taking on four Syrian Light cargoes in January. But in the official monthly programme circulated to lifters, the trader has only a single stem and has not offered any additional stems into the market. "Syria is eager to avoid a repeat of December, when the jump in exports caused all sorts of uncomfortable questions from the United ~, Nations," said one market source. January Iraq resumes normal exports from Gulf port: Press 10, 2001 Agence France Presse BAGHDAD: Iraq has resumed normal oil exports from its Gulf port of Mina al-Bakr following a month-long interruption due to a dispute with the UN over prices, an official daily AI-Qadissaya reported Tuesday. Seven oil tankers have been loaded over the past 10 days, "loading operations are now continuing normally and other tankers are expected at the (Mina al-Bakr) terminal in the coming days", the newspaper said. The paper added that exports were going ahead "despite the refusal of the UN sanctions committee to approve contracts for spare parts to rehabilitate 38
Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Bastn Özeti Iraq's oil installations". Oil Minister Amer Rashid told Al-Qadissaya that Iraq had so far received 450 million dollars worth of oil industry spare parts out of a total of 1.9 billion dollars worth of deals submitted to the UN for approval. According to UN figures, 1.24 billion dollars worth of oil spare parts contracts have been approved and 331.5 million dollars worth placed "on hold", while the rest has yet to be examined. Iraq has been under embargo since its 1990 invasion of Kuwait but is authorised to export crude under strict UN supervision in return for imports of humanitarian supplies and essential goods. The UN sanctions committee in December rejected a new formula proposed by Iraq for the pricing of its crude amid controversy over Baghdad's efforts to impose a surcharge to be paid outside UN control. (AFP) Albright regrets passing on Iraq problem ByEUJ. LAKE WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Tuesday she regrets that Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein would remain a problem for the incoming administration. Speaking at the dedication of the Carl T. Rowan Press Briefing Room at the State Department, the outgoing secretary of state said, "I am really sorry that we had the issue of Saddam Hussein on our plate when we arrived, and I am equally sorry to say that we are passing it on." Jan. 16 will mark the lo-year anniversary of the start of the Gulf war, in which the incoming president's father, George H.W. Bush, brought together a coalition of Arab and European countries to militarily beat back Hussein's troops from Kuwait after its invasion of the country five months earlier. As President-elect Bush prepares his foreign policy team to assume power only five days after the anniversary of his father's greatest foreign policy achievement, he may find himself in a position to have to make a similar decision. The Iraqi leader has become more belligerent in the last six months as the U.N. sanctions regime weakens against him, and more Arab and European countries seek to restore ties with his country. Since the beginning of the Palestinian uprising in Israel, Saddam has challenged other leaders to support the uprising, sending funds for Palestinian "martyrs" and threatening to use his army to intervene on behalf of demonstrators. Iraq News, an e-mail news service critical of the government in Baghdad, reported that on Dee. 31, Saddam displayed his renewed might in a military parade that featured at least 1,000 tanks, newly resurfaced surface to air-missiles and soldiers bedecked in new uniforms imported from Syria. Nonetheless, Albright said Tuesday, "I do think that Saddam Hussein is weaker. He has been contained." 'We have worked very hard not to have him be a threat to the region, to do everything that we can to make sure that he doesn't reconstitute his weapons of mass destruction and that he not terrorize his people, and tried to do everything to make him live up to his international obligations," she said. But Albright announced in September that unlike in the past, the Clinton administration would not be willing to use force to get Iraq to allow weapons inspectors into the country. Saddam's diplomats last month restructured the oil for food program, a U.N. plan to allow Iraq to export oil in exchange for food, medicine and some infrastructure improvements. After threatening to raise the premium on his country's oil in that program, he convinced the United Nations to reimburse his local expenditures with hard currency, a move which gives Iraq the ability to refurbish the war machine Bush the elder sought to demolish. "When Clinton took office the situation was basically good, there was a strong anti-Iraq coalition in the region and internationally. There was a viable Iraqi opposition and there was a system for UN weapons inspections," said Iraq News editor Laurie Mylroie. "None of that exists now, they have frittered it all away." Throughout the debates and campaign, however, the Texas governor said that the sanctions against Iraq have indeed fallen apart. When Bush announced retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell as his choice for secretary of state, Powell vowed to "re-energize sanctions" against Iraq. He also said that the Iraqi regime has failed to live up to the agreements it made at the end of the 1991 conflict. • • * • • 39
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