Iraq: Oil-for-Food Program, Illicit Trade, and Investigations
Description:
The “oil-for-food” program (OFFP) was the centerpiece of a long-standing U.N.
Security Council effort to alleviate human suffering in Iraq while maintaining key
elements of the 1991 Gulf war-related sanctions regime. In order to ensure that Iraq
remained contained and that only humanitarian needs were served by the program,
the program imposed controls on Iraqi oil exports and humanitarian imports. All
Iraqi oil revenues legally earned under the program were held in a U.N.-controlled
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Date:
January 9, 2006
Creator:
Katzman, Kenneth & Blanchard, Christopher M.
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