81.   Humanitarian supplies are officially exempted, but a regional sanctions committee has been slow to approve the necessary paperwork, aid workers said.

82.   However, the sanctions committee occasionally grants exceptions to aid flights, including one organized by Zhirinovsky in December.

83.   Humanitarian items such as food and medicine are allowed, but every sale has to be approved by a U.N. sanctions committee.

84.   Humanitarian supplies are officially exempted, but a regional sanctions committee has been slow in approving the necessary paperwork, aid workers say.

85.   However, the minister reiterated the Iraqi complaint that U.S. and British representatives on the U.N. sanctions committee were delaying contracts for spare parts required for the oil industry.

86.   If so, the Security Council sanctions committee would have to approve them.

87.   In a letter, however, the sanctions committee took note of the fact that Mubarak would be visiting Gadhafi with a medical team.

88.   In a recent report, U.N. experts working for the sanctions committee said many of the small intermediaries are not known in the oil industry.

89.   In New York, the U.N. sanctions committee said the flight received authorization Thursday after answering questions about its purpose from the United States.

90.   In New York, a U.N. spokesman said the request for an exception to the ban had been put on hold by the sanctions committee.