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‘Oil-for-Food’ Program Extended Six Months

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Iraq and the United Nations extended the “oil-for-food” program--allowing the nation to sell oil to buy humanitarian supplies--for six months, despite a new overhaul of sanctions, U.N. officials said.

Iraq had accepted the new regulations, which aim to streamline delivery of civilian goods to Iraq but also require U.N. reviews of a 300-page list of supplies that could have military uses.

Technically, the new memorandum is based on a 1996 program setting up the food plan, an exception to the sanctions imposed after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

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