41. The sanctions bar these companies from receiving U.S. government assistance and from selling their products to the United States. 42. The sanctions do not bar the import of food and medicine, but all imports must be cleared by a U.N. sanctions committee. 43. The sanctions have barred Iraq from exporting oil, its economic mainstay, leading to shortages of food, medicine and other necessities. 44. The U.N. sanctions barred all countries and individuals from selling or supplying weapons, ammunition, military vehicles and equipment to either country. 45. The U.N. sanctions never barred Iraq from buying food or medicine, but the government said it could not afford them. 46. Those sanctions barred economic and military assistance. 47. U.N. sanctions bar air traffic to and from Libya. 48. U.N. economic sanctions also bar all trade with Iraq except humanitarian supplies. 49. U.N. sanctions bar international flights into Baghdad. 50. U.N. sanctions bar international flights into Iraq. |