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Baghdad rejects new UN oil-for-food resolution
BAGHDAD (AFP) Mar 29, 2003
 Iraq rejects the resolution adopted by the UN Security Council to renew the "oil-for-food" programme, Information Minister Mohammed Said al-Sahhaf said Saturday.

"Only Iraq can administer this programme," Sahhaf told a press conference, referring to a measure adopted Friday giving UN Secretary General Kofi Annan control for 45 days over the humanitarian side of the UN programme, which uses Iraq's oil revenues for food and medical supplies.

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