11.   United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan could announce today his approval of an Iraqi plan for distributing food and medicine paid for with oil revenue.

12.   United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan approved an Iraqi plan for distributing food and medicine paid for with oil revenue, a UN spokesman said.

13.   Other relief organizations also are distributing food in the country and the Taliban militia that controls most of the country has confiscated some of those foodstuffs.

14.   But the offer includes requirements for U.N. controls on the system for distributing food and medicine, especially in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq.

15.   He said the Red Cross and other relief agencies were busy distributing food and emergency supplies to the displaced.

16.   Humanitarian groups have quickly followed the peacekeepers, distributing food, plastic sheeting and roofing timber to the tens of thousands of homeless.

17.   In addition, a separate committee headed by U.N. Undersecretary-General Chinmaya Gharekhan must approve a separate Iraqi plan for distributing food and medicine.

18.   Iraq is expected to submit its plan for distributing food and medicine purchased with oil revenues next week, diplomats and U.N. officials said Tuesday.

19.   Iraq urged the United Nations on Tuesday to finish reviewing an Iraqi plan for distributing food and medicine bought with oil revenues.

20.   Iraq has submitted an unsatisfactory draft plan for distributing food and medicine under the U.N. oil-for-food deal, a U.N. official said Wednesday.