(``*IRAQ: Iraqis want free food programme to continue, UN’s oil-for-food programme?
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wow .....10 yrs from now we will be giving them free oil.....
and (Un's= United nations pursuit of oil from poor countries.....no wonder they are pist!) sounds to me like someone needs to govern and do elections in the UN.
BAGHDAD, 4 January 2009 (IRIN) - An Iraqi government survey conducted late 2008 has found that 95 percent of Iraqi families would prefer to keep the state’s free food programme running rather than replace it with financial aid, a government spokesman said on 3 January.
“We interviewed 15,000 families all over Iraq and have already presented the outcomes to all concerned governmental parties for consideration when adopting new measures in this regard,” Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawi, spokesman for the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, which conducted the survey, told IRIN.
However, al-Hindawi said that his ministry, which oversees economic and human development projects, supports the government plan to withhold the programme from well-to-do people and provide food solely to poorer families.
“It will benefit the Iraqi economy when money goes only to buy food for those who need it,” al-Hindawi told IRIN.
Iraq’s food rationing system, known as the Public Distribution System (PDS), was set up in 1995 as part of the UN’s oil-for-food programme following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait 17 years ago. However, it has been crumbling since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 due to insecurity, poor management and corruption.
and (Un's= United nations pursuit of oil from poor countries.....no wonder they are pist!) sounds to me like someone needs to govern and do elections in the UN.
BAGHDAD, 4 January 2009 (IRIN) - An Iraqi government survey conducted late 2008 has found that 95 percent of Iraqi families would prefer to keep the state’s free food programme running rather than replace it with financial aid, a government spokesman said on 3 January.
“We interviewed 15,000 families all over Iraq and have already presented the outcomes to all concerned governmental parties for consideration when adopting new measures in this regard,” Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawi, spokesman for the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, which conducted the survey, told IRIN.
However, al-Hindawi said that his ministry, which oversees economic and human development projects, supports the government plan to withhold the programme from well-to-do people and provide food solely to poorer families.
“It will benefit the Iraqi economy when money goes only to buy food for those who need it,” al-Hindawi told IRIN.
Iraq’s food rationing system, known as the Public Distribution System (PDS), was set up in 1995 as part of the UN’s oil-for-food programme following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait 17 years ago. However, it has been crumbling since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 due to insecurity, poor management and corruption.
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"What we don't know won't hurt us.......us=US.....
I think our economy suks and our children here in the states haven't had an increase on the food stamp program in years.....we allow our people to suffer and all along the rich UN and oil company owners such as Bush.....drive it in our backs.......with a dull blade. - 3 years ago
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