House of Representatives Tuesday to discuss suspension of the memorandum of understanding [oil-for-f

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House of Representatives to consider resumption of its meetings next Tuesday in three bills to cancel the decisions of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council, the most important decision No. 256 for the year oil for food and medicine program in 1999.

A reporter told all of Iraq [where] that the Legal Committee requested a discussion Cancel decision law due to the absence of the need of it due to stop work the memorandum of understanding [oil-for-food and medicine] by the UN Security Council Resolution No. [1472] In March 2003, 28 ".

The reporter said that the Legal Committee asked to discuss and approve the laws rescinding of the decision No. 15 of 1998 and Decree No. 32 of 2000 due to the absence of the need for both the issuance of the Ministry of Foreign Law No. 36 of 2013 ".

The oil-for-food is the United Nations, issued in accordance with Security Council Resolution 986, 1995; labeled oil-for-food program Oil for Food Program, a program which allows Iraq to export a specific part of its oil, to benefit from the revenues to buy humanitarian needs of its people, under the supervision of United nations.

The development of this program, when Sauer Security Council concern, regarding the continued suffering of the civilian population of the Iraqi people, as a result of the comprehensive sanctions imposed on Iraq, in August / August 1990, because of the invasion of Kuwait, he issued the Security Council, in April / April 1995, resolution 986, which includes the oil-for-food formula, as a temporary measure, to provide democracy Faridia and sectarian wars of the Iraqi people.

The oil for food program unique program in its kind, intended as a temporary measure, to provide humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people, and is being implemented in the context of the sanctions regime, with all its attendant dimensions, political, psychological and commercial, that Iraq implement relevant resolutions, including, on the In particular, resolution 687 [1991], dated April 3 / April 1991.

The program under Security Council Resolution 986, 1995, and subsequent resolutions has been prepared, and established the Office of the Iraq Programme, the United Nations, in October / October 1997, for the implementation of this program.

In May 1996, after long negotiations with the General Secretariat of the United Nations, Iraq signed a memorandum of understanding, showing the arrangements for the implementation of Security Council resolution 986. exported the first shipment of Iraqi oil under the program, in December 1996; and arrived first shipments of food to Iraq, in March 1997.

Even in 2000, it agreed to the Security Council Committee established by resolution 661, contracts, with a total value increased to $ 18.5 billion; while agreeing OIP another contract, worth five billion dollars, by way of expedited procedures or fast track, and delivered to Iraq supplies The equipment, worth about $ 13 billion Dolar.anthy