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Japan, Britain excluded from Iraq's oil-for-food programme: report 12:02 GMT, 12 August 1998 TOKYO, Aug 12 (AFP) -Iraq excluded Japan and Britain from its oil export contracts for the second half of 1998 in an oil-for-food humanitarian programme agreed under UN sanctions, a report said Wednesday. The decision at the "highest level" of the Iraqi government was apparently due to the two countries' support for the sanctions, Kyodo news agency quoted an Iraqi oil official and Japanese industry sources as saying. The oil-rich country instead agreed more contracts with Russia, France and China which had been pressing for an early lifting of the sanctions, the news agency reported. Saddam Zaban al-Hassan of Iraq's State Oil Marketing Corporation said last month Iraq had so far signed 48 contracts for the six months to December 3 with unidentified companies for the sale of 302 million barrels of oil. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html