According to the UNCC, “The overwhelming majority of the 2.6 million claims filed with the Commission have been resolved. However, the claims still to be considered by the panels of commissioners include those claims with the largest asserted values.”
Therefore, approximately $285 Billion worth of claims has yet to be adjudicated and if so determined, taken from Iraq’s income from the so-called “oil-for-food” program.
Meanwhile, the bombing continues (over 112,000 air sorties in 11 years); Iraq continues to be an experimental laboratory for depleted uranium and the people of Iraq are presented as being “beneficiaries” of the largesse of the United Nations which is managing their oil revenues and doling it out to them as a form of “aid”.
Although the United States, Great Britain and the United Nations claim that the sanctions are simply a method of forcing Saddam Hussein into compliance with International Law, the actual victims are the Iraqi civilian population.
This month, Benon V. Sevan, Executive Director of the U.N.’s Office of the Iraq Programme, Oil for Food, expressed “grave concern” over declining oil revenues for “relief aid”. He is also concerned about the differences of opinion as to the proper method for pricing Iraqi oil.
Therefore, approximately $285 Billion worth of claims has yet to be adjudicated and if so determined, taken from Iraq’s income from the so-called “oil-for-food” program.
Meanwhile, the bombing continues (over 112,000 air sorties in 11 years); Iraq continues to be an experimental laboratory for depleted uranium and the people of Iraq are presented as being “beneficiaries” of the largesse of the United Nations which is managing their oil revenues and doling it out to them as a form of “aid”.
Although the United States, Great Britain and the United Nations claim that the sanctions are simply a method of forcing Saddam Hussein into compliance with International Law, the actual victims are the Iraqi civilian population.
This month, Benon V. Sevan, Executive Director of the U.N.’s Office of the Iraq Programme, Oil for Food, expressed “grave concern” over declining oil revenues for “relief aid”. He is also concerned about the differences of opinion as to the proper method for pricing Iraqi oil.