United Nations agencies working in Iraq do not enforce rules about the proper submission of contracts, he wrote, giving them until Aug. 31 to improve their procurement procedures. Oil production will soon be unsustainable at present levels, the report says. That would ultimately mean less money for civilian needs. If the price of oil should fall, the damage would be far worse. The arrival of new medical equipment has led to a quadrupling of X-ray examinations in three years, the United Nations found.
International agencies are in direct charge of aid there.
Mr. Annan cautions in his report that the program should not be considered a development plan for Iraq, but rather an exceptional and complicated project to fill gaps in Iraq's own public projects because of the effects of sanctions. Back to Headlines 3. Those were the slogans we believed in once, Concepts dear to our young hearts. In Leningrad empty words intoxicated us And the red books from Peking impressed so many. Yet they remained silent when Halabja was gassed By the chemicals purchased from the markets of the West and East.