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October 2000

• Sanctions committee finds no objection to Baghdad request for currency switch, UN News, 31 October 2000 -- The Security Council committee monitoring the sanctions against Iraq has found "no objection" to Baghdad's request for a switch in currency in its United Nations-administered oil sales, a UN spokesman said today.
• State Department Noon Briefing - Iraq, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 31 October 2000 -- Q: Richard, a new Russian...another Russian plane landed in Baghdad today with 250-odd people on board. Do you know whether...
• Thorvald Stoltenberg to chair expert group on Iraq's humanitarian situation, UN News, 30 October 2000 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan today named Thorvald Stoltenberg of Norway to chair a group of independent experts looking at the humanitarian situation in Iraq.
• 2 Iraqis Killed, 1 Injured in U.S., British Air Raids, People's Daily, 30 October 2000 -- Two Iraqi civilians were killed and another one injured in the United States and British warplanes' attacks in southern Iraq on Sunday, an Iraqi military spokesman said.
• State Department Noon Briefing - Iraq No-fly Zone, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 30 October 2000 -- Q: If I could get to Iraq. There are reports today that Baghdad has reopened, I guess, flights to the no-fly zone areas, and I was wondering if there was any comment on this internally - these flights?
• White House Daily Briefing - Iraqi Oil Exports, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 30 October 2000 -- Q: Also, back on the oil situation. Iraq has said that as of November 1st, oil exports will only be denominated in Euros and the United Nations, I believe, has said it needs more time to adjust its accounting procedures. There's an implicit threat for the Iraqis to cut off oil exports.
• UN body pays out $1.2 billion for losses from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, UN News, 27 October 2000 -- The United Nations Compensation Commission, which processes and pays compensation for losses resulting from Iraq's 1990 invasion and occupation of Kuwait, has begun a new stage of payments by making over $1.2 billion available for distribution.
• State Department Noon Briefing - Iraq, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 26 October 2000 -- Q: New subject? Has the United States sought reassurances from Saudi Arabia regarding oil exports in the light of Iraq's consideration of suspending exports if they don't start paying for them in Euros?
• White House Daily Briefing - Iraq, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 26 October 2000 -- Q: What is the U.S.'s position on Iraq request to pay for oil exports in Euros? Are you opposed to this?
• Pentagon Spokesman's Regular Tuesday Briefing, U.S. Department of Defense, 24 October 2000 -- Q: Could you give us an update, please, on the movement of Iraqi troops that was of some concern to U.S. officials?
• Iraq earns record $508 million in weekly revenue under UN oil-for-food scheme, UN News, 24 October 2000 -- In the largest intake since the United Nations humanitarian programme for Iraq began in 1996, Baghdad last week earned $508 million dollars in revenue from oil exports, according to the latest statistics released today by the UN office in charge of the effort.
• ONW Aircraft fired upon and targeted by radar, U.S. Department of Defense, 23 October 2000 -- Iraqi forces fired anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) from sites north of Mosul while ONW aircraft conducted routine enforcement of the Northern No-Fly Zone. Coalition aircraft were also targeted by Iraqi radar.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 3, Number 35 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 20 October 2000 -- SADDAM CALLS FOR JIHAD IN PALESTINE / SAUDI ARABIA DEMANDS RETURN OF HIJACKERS / RUSSIA, IRAQ TO EXPAND CULTURAL COOPERATION / IRAQI-IRANIAN RAPPROCHEMENT CONTINUES / QADHAFI WON'T VISIT IRAQ ANYTIME SOON / GCC MAY LINK MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS / PKK SAYS PUK PLANNING NEW ASSAULT / IRAQI THREATS BEHIND KURDISH EMIGRATION / U.S. JUDGE REJECTS ASSYRIAN PROTEST
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Vol. 3, No. 35, 20 October 2000 -- Saddam Calls For Jihad In Palestine - Saudi Arabia Demands Return of Hijackers - Russia, Iraq To Expand Cultural Cooperation - Iraqi-Iranian Rapprochement Continues - Qadhafi Won't Visit Iraq Anytime Soon - Gcc May Link Military Communications - PKK Says PK Planning New Assault - Iraqi Threats Behind Kurdish Emigration - U.S. Judge Rejects Assyrian Protest
• UN-Iraq Aid, Voice of America, 19 October 2000 -- The chief United Nations Humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, Tun Myat, said today (Thursday) that delays in shipments of electrical equipment are hurting average Iraqi citizens.
• U.N. Urges Sanctions Committee to Lift Holds on Iraqi Supplies, USIS Washington File, 19 October 2000 -- While there has been considerable improvement in the supply of food and medicine for Iraqi civilians under the oil-for-food program, U.N. officials are appealing to the Sanctions Committee to review the program's oversight procedures and release contracts for electrical and other supplies. Without those supplies, they say, there will be no major improvement in the living conditions of ordinary Iraqi citizens.
• Letter to Congress on Obtaining Compliance from Iraq , The White House, Office of the Secretary, 19 October 2000 -- "Consistent with the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution...I am reporting on the status of efforts to obtain Iraq's compliance with the resolutions adopted by the United Nations Security Council."
• UN aid coordinator in Iraq urges lifting of holds on humanitarian contracts, UN News, 19 October 2000 --The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq has appealed to the committee monitoring the sanctions against Baghdad to release contracts for relief goods that are currently on hold.
• PRESS BRIEFING BY UN COORDINATOR IN IRAQ United Nations 19 Oct 2000
• Press Briefing By Un Coordinator In Iraq, UN Press Briefing, 19 October 2000 -- The food distribution system in Iraq under the "oil for food" programme was second to none, but unless the basics -- housing, electricity, water, and sanitation -- were restored, the overall well-being of the people would not improve, Tun Myat, United Nations Coordinator in Iraq, told correspondents at a United Nations briefing this afternoon.
• Top officials involved in Iraq oil-for-food programme meet in New York, UN News, 17 October 2000 -- Given the immense revenues now available for Iraq to fund a range of needs beyond food and medicine, the expression "oil-for-food" has become a misnomer, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette told a meeting on the UN's humanitarian programme for Iraq which opened today in New York.
• IAEA remains ready to resume verification work in Iraq: report, UN News, 16 October 2000 -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) remains prepared to resume its inspections in Iraq on short notice in order to verify the status of the country's past clandestine nuclear programme, according to the Agency's latest progress report, which was released today at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 3, Number 34 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 13 October 2000 -- 'U.S. INTERESTS IN IRAQ ARE DURABLE...' / SYRIAN PLANE LANDS IN BAGHDAD / UN OFFICIAL VIEWS FLIGHTS AS UNHEALTHY DEVELOPMENT / TURKEY TO APPOINT AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ / SADDAM CALLS FOR SUPPORT OF PALESTINIAN INTIFADAH / IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO VISIT BAGHDAD / UK-INC CONSULTATIONS HELD / RIFT WITHIN OPPOSITION ASSERTED AND DENIED / IRAQ, UKRAINE DISCUSS BILATERAL RELATIONS / IRAQ TO IMPORT SOME 33,000 VEHICLES FROM JAPAN / PUK-PKK CEASEFIRE IN EFFECT (FOR TWO DAYS) / IRAQI TURKMEN SEEK FOREIGN SUPPORT / IRAQI INTELLIGENCE PUTS ASSYRIANS UNDER PRESSURE
• Press Briefing By Jake Siewert, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 12 October 2000 -- Q: What's the situation with Iraqi troops?
• DoD News Briefing, U.S. Department of Defense, 12 October 2000 -- Q: Secretary Cohen -- (inaudible) -- on the latest Iraqi troop movements and whether you see anything sinister happening there?
• Daily Press Briefing, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 12 October 2000 -- Q: All right. How about Turkey preparing to tap in full blown to the Iraqi pipeline? Does that distress the State Department?
• Coalition Aircraft Respond To Iraqi Anti-Aircraft Fire, U.S. Department of Defense, 10 October 2000 -- In response to Iraqi anti-aircraft fire earlier today, coalition aircraft enforcing the Southern No-Fly-Zone used precision-guided weapons to strike a surface-to-air missile support facility in Southern Iraq at approximately 8:15 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
• Pentagon Spokesman's Regular Briefing, source, 10 October 2000 -- Q: Craig, sticking to the region; Turkey has become the ninth country, I believe, to send a relief flight into Baghdad. What's the Pentagon reaction to that?
• UN works to release humanitarian contracts for Iraq held for lack of information, UN News, 10 October 2000 -- The United Nations is working to reduce the number of humanitarian relief contracts for Iraq that are not being processed because of a lack of information, the office overseeing the UN's oil-for-food programme announced today.
• SYRIA PLANE /BAGHDAD, Voice of America, 08 October 2000 -- Syria has sent its first plane to Baghdad in two-decades to protest 10-years of U-N sanctions.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 3, Number 33 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 6 October 2000 -- OIL SMUGGLING NETTING IRAQ $2 BILLION A YEAR / AN IRAQ-IRAN RAPPROCHEMENT IN THE OFFING? / LIBYAN LEADER TO VISIT IRAQ? / RUSSIA, IRAQ AGREE TO RESUME REGULAR FLIGHTS / IRAQI AIRLINES TO REOPEN DAMASCUS OFFICE / DCT URGES FORMATION OF 'COALITION FRONT.' / IRAN AGREES TO INC OFFICE IN TEHRAN / JORDANIAN, YEMENI PLANES LAND IN BAGHDAD / MOROCCAN PLANE LANDS IN BAGHDAD / IRAQI CULTURAL FESTIVAL ATTRACTS PEOPLE FROM 47 COUNTRIES / FIGHTING RESUMES BETWEEN PKK, PUK
• Iraq: Relief Flights Beginning of The End For Sanctions?, Foreign Media Reaction Reports, 05 October 2000 - Foreign media commentary on the impact of the recent relief flights to Baghdad.
• With UN sanctions committee approval, more countries fly aid to Baghdad, UN News, 05 October 2000 -- Having secured the approval of the United Nations committee monitoring the sanctions against Iraq, several more nations have flown humanitarian supplies into the country, a UN spokesman announced today.
• Over The Recent Period The Un Security Council Has Regularly Considered The Complex of Issues Relating To The Disastrous Humanitarian Situation In Iraq, Russian Federation Foreign Ministry, 05 October 2000 -- Generally speaking, it would facilitate a cardinal solution to the humanitarian problem in Iraq to suspend and then lift the sanctions imposed against Iraq, along with the launching of a new mechanism for international monitoring of Iraq's disarmament programs, as is provided by the pertinent Security Council resolutions.
• Annan urges speedy approval of humanitarian contracts for Iraq, UN News, 04 October 2000 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan has expressed "serious concern" that over $2 billion worth of humanitarian contracts for Iraq are now on hold in the committee monitoring the sanctions against Baghdad, according to a letter released at United Nations Headquarters today.
• State Department Regular Briefing - Iraq, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 03 October 2000 -- Q: Do you have a read on what is going on along the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border?
• Iraqi Opposition Gets $4 million in U.S. Support, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 03 October 2000 -- On September 29, The Department of State concluded a cooperative agreement with the Iraqi National Congress providing four million dollars to advance the Iraqi National Congress' ongoing operations and establish new ones.
• KUWAIT / ALERT, Voice of America, 03 October 2000 -- A Kuwaiti security official says the country has placed its troops on maximum alert near its border with Iraq and has moved in elite troops as reinforcements.
• IRAQ/PLANES, Voice of America, 03 October 2000 -- A Moroccan aid plane has landed in Baghdad, making it the third Arab flight in a week to challenge U-N sanctions against Iraq.
• With Security Council approval, Morocco flies humanitarian supplies to Iraq, UN News, 03 October 2000 -- After receiving a green light from the Security Council committee monitoring the sanctions against Iraq, a Moroccan plane carrying humanitarian supplies landed in Baghdad today.
• Annan reports calm on Iraq/Kuwait border, recommends continued UN presence, UN News, 02 October 2000 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan today recommended to the Security Council that it continue the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM), as its presence has contributed to calm and stability along the border between the two countries.