U.N. Recommends Bringing Iraq Closer To Ending 1990s Sanctions

[Purveyor]

Source: REUTERS

UNITED NATIONS | Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:19pm EDT
(Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday recommended bringing Iraq one step closer to ending all U.N. sanctions imposed on Baghdad more than two decades ago after former leader Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait In 1990.

Despite the toppling of Saddam in 2003 after a U.S.-led invasion, the United Nations has not fully lifted the sanctions. U.S.-led troops drove Iraq out of Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War.

If the U.N. Security Council accepts Ban's recommendation, it will be a significant political boost for Baghdad as it struggles to restore its international standing a decade after Saddam's ouster.

Iraq is still subject to a U.N. arms embargo and asset freeze on individuals and entities linked to Saddam.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/19/us-iraq-kuwait-un-idUSBRE95I00L20130619

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Iraq still burdened by 1990 sanctions, who knew?

[DRoseDARs]

1. "Iraq is still sbjct 2 a U.N. arms embrgo & asset freeze on individuals & entities linked 2 Saddam."

OK, now I see why. I'm not smart enough to know whether or not those sanctions need to go, but I understand why they're there in the first place.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Talk about bureaucratic inertia...

[dipsydoodle]

3. Iraq is still subject to a U.N. arms embargo

I'm wondering if the US itself breached those sanctions.