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>From UN News Centre at: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=2561&Cr=iraq&Cr1=oil "The Executive Director of the United Nations Iraq Programme, Benon Sevan [..] sent a letter to the Chairman of the Security Council committee monitoring the sanctions against Iraq expressing "grave concern at the unprecedented surge in the volume of holds placed on contracts by the committee." The total volume now stands at nearly $5 billion, including 1,265 contracts worth $4.28 billion now on hold." If anyone finds a copy of the letter becomes available, please do circulate it. It's not yet on the OIP site. For those of you who don't check the What's New section of the CASI website on a daily basis (!!), you may be interested in the data on holds for each phase of oil for food since Phase IV up to 18 December 2001 at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/info/undocs/status011218.htm If anyone cares to number-crunch or produce informative graphs using this data, pls drop CASI a line. Best wishes Glen Rangwala -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk CASI's website - www.casi.org.uk - includes an archive of all postings.