Troubles Involved with Giving Aid
From Dickinson College Wiki
Oil-for-Food Programme
- The Oil-for-Food Programme was establish by the United Nations in 1995 (Under Security Council Resolution 986) and terminated in late 2003, was intended to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and other humaritarian needs for ordinary Iraqi citizens without allowing Iraq to rebuild its military.
- The programme was introduced by the US Clinton Administration in 1995, as a response to arguments that ordinary Iraqi citizens were inordinately affected by the international economic sanctions aimed at the demilitarisation of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, imposed in the wake of the first Gulf War. The sactions were discontinued in 2003 after the United States invasion of Iraq, and the humanitarian functions turned over to the Coalition Provisional Authority.
- As the program ended, there were revelations of corruption involving the funds. Facts today shouw just how corrupt the UN and Saddam were, while money was suppose to be going to the Iraqi people the money was going to Saddam.
