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De: Mark Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Data: Domingo, 22 de Outubro de 2000 00:20
Assunto: Albright slips on Iraqi oil exports to U.S.
>Albright slips on Iraqi oil exports to U.S.
>
>WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, whose
>job it is to oversee U.S. foreign policy, is apparently unaware how
>important
>Iraq's crude oil is to United States.
>
>Albright said on Sunday that the United States did not purchase oil from
>Iraq. ``I do not believe so. I don't think so,'' she said on the ABC news
>programme ``This Week'' when asked if the U.S. market used Iraqi oil.
>
>She was off by 124.6 million barrels.
>
>That is how much oil the United States imported from Iraq during the first
>seven months of this year, according to the latest data from the Energy
>Department.
>
>Iraq was the sixth-biggest supplier of oil to the United States during the
>period, shipping an average of 585,000 barrels per day. A barrel holds 42
>gallons (160 litres) of oil.
>
>Iraq shipped more oil than Kuwait, which a U.S.-led international military
>force liberated from an invading Iraqi army a decade ago. Kuwait exported
>217,000 bpd of crude to the United States during the seven-month period.
>Saudi Arabia was the biggest U.S. oil supplier, shipping 1.442 million bpd.
>
>Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush has criticised the Clinton
>administration's energy policy as a threat to U.S. national security. He
>points out that the United States depends on foreign countries for more
than
>
>half its oil supplies.
>
>While Iraq is bound by strict U.N. economic sanctions imposed after the
Gulf
>
>War, it is allowed to sell oil under a special U.N.-run programme to get
>money for buying food, medicine and other humanitarian goods.
>
>14:13 10-15-00
>
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