"Oil for food" in Sudan proposed

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	"Oil for food" in Sudan proposed

countryboylife

6-13-2007 2:54 PM

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africa, sudan, darfur

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6-13-2007 3:17 PM

joaaron2468

Didn't the UN just have an issue with that? May want to try another way, or history might repeat it's self.

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			</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><B>The creation of an oil-for-food programme has been proposed as a way of ending Sudan's conflict in Darfur by South African judge Richard Goldstone.</B>
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<FONT size="2">Mr Goldstone said under the proposed scheme, revenues from Sudan's oil exports could be spent only on development and humanitarian projects.
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