71. Yonhap quoted Gallucci as saying that further oil shipments would not be made until North Korea agrees to accept South Korean-model nuclear reactors. 72. If the first sanctions efforts failed, a second stage could include an oil embargo, which would directly affect Chinese oil shipments to the isolationist Stalinist country. 73. Independent inspection agents appointed by Boutros-Ghali were to oversee the oil shipments and report to the United Nations on the quantities sold. 74. Iraq said on Wednesday it would resume oil shipments on Thursday after deciding against extending a month-long stoppage in support of the Palestinians. 75. A State Department official said late Thursday that the only link to stopping oil shipments was the issue of diversion. 76. Diplomats also said that Lloyds of London would control the delivery of humanitarian aid to Iraq and the Dutch company Saybolt would supervise the oil shipments. 77. The UN Sanctions Committee has decided to sell two oil shipments seized last month in the Gulf for violating the UN embargo against Iraq, diplomats said. 78. They added that they expected the dinar to strengthen further as Iraq came closer to exporting its first oil shipments to international markets in six years. 79. Washington continued to deliver the heavy oil shipments despite the submarine incident, a fact which North Korea acknowledged through KCNA earlier this week. 80. Washington, which wants to keep the accord on track, has delivered heavy oil shipments, despite the submarine incident. |