Foreword
The Oil-for-Food Program was the largest humanitarian relief operation ever launched by an international organization. From 1996 until 2003, the United Nations oversaw the sale of $64 billion in Iraqi oil, the proceeds of which were used to purchase food, medicine, and other goods to help alleviate the adverse impact that post-Gulf War sanctions were having on the Iraqi people.Set up on a temporary basis by UN Security Council Resolution 986 in April 1995, the program initially allowed Iraq to sell $2 billion in oil every six months to purchasers of its choice, who deposited the revenue in a UN-controlled…
