About Us - UN Program
 
UN- Regulations deal with Iraq according to the "Oil for Food Deal" due to the fact that Iraq is a blockaded country since 1991.It is blockaded according to international resolutions issued by the "Security Council". Within a special program signed between the Iraqi Government and UNs called "Memorandum of Understanding" (M.O.U) or the "Oil for Food Deal", Iraq is allowed to export a quantity of its oil to buy humanitarian goods such as foodstuff, medical appliances, infra-structure set up, equipment to support health care sector, electrical power stations, oil production equipment, water treatment and so on.

Any supplier to Iraq should abide by UN procedure through a certain mechanism under resolutions 986 (1995), 1284 (2001), 1382 (2001) and 1409 (2002) .Through these resolutions the Security Council decided to adopt a revised good review list (S/2002/515).

Any company or supplier whishing to supply any goods or services to Iraq should apply to the Office of Iraqi Program (OIP).Companies should complete technical specification at the UN through the permanent mission, or Un agencies to be registered and have the comm. Number. Applications are to be reviewed and approved. In the event that the request for further technical information be made the (OIP) -after the completion of their procedures- will inform the permanent mission of the country of the Contractor (Applicant). The decision is then forwarded to the applicant either to supply the contracted goods or services and to pay from the escrow account of Iraq at UN, or to have the goods or services be reviewed according to new technical information. Financing would then be granted as a letter of credit to be issued from the central bank of Iraq to the Banque National De Paris at New York.
For further information visit the website of UN OIP www.un.org/depts/oip

Usually the permission for exporting oil is renewed by the Security Council and United Nations every six months, this is called "Phase". We work exclusively within these resolutions, as we have no other activities out of the legal international approvals of UN and Security Council.

We have been through this kind of work ever since our company was founded and we were able to achieve good results through our good market name and mutual relations with Iraqi staff. Such relations are built by our best quality service offered with the aim of giving optimum level of accuracy and follow-up to the beneficiaries in Iraq and Iraqi Ministries. We executed a good number of contracts for the benefit of those companies we already represent.

Due to the priorities, which were regulated to the previous Oil for Food phases, we concentrated on hospital needs and rehabilitation, which in turn resulted in a good record of achievements. The Iraqi priorities were more concentrated on rehabilitation of the infrastructure functions like: electrical power stations, water treatment, sewage, transportation, health care sector, communication. and so on as most of the country's necessities were either demolished during the Gulf War of 1991 or depreciated during the embargo period Following it.