51.   Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh told a news conference that he expected Iraqi oil exports to resume after U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan acts on the proposal.

52.   Traders remain skeptical that Iraqi exports will resume in full anytime soon.

53.   Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh told a news conference that he expected Iraqi oil exports to resume after U.N. Secretary General Koffi Annan acts on the proposal.

54.   Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh said that he expected Iraqi oil exports to resume after U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan acts on the proposal.

55.   U.N. officials said some minor technical points needed to be ironed out, before oil exports could resume as early as next month.

56.   Food and medicine distribution has yet to begin, although oil exports resumed in December.

57.   It said that even if Iraqi oil exports resume at the start of next year, oil prices will not collapse, all the same.

58.   And he said that a lot of work needed to be done before British beef exports could resume across the world.

59.   But only semen exports have actually resumed and Brussels is under intense pressure not to agree that the conditions for the other two products have been met.

60.   But the United Nations says that UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali had still to submit his final report to the Security Council before the oil exports can resume.