The UN's humanitarian oil-for-food programme would be phased out over six months, not four.
He revealed how far the oil-for-food programme still is from alleviating the Iraqi tragedy.
Even the Un Security Council doesn't believe the current oil-for-food programme can solve the humanitarian crisis.
You base your argument on the premise that the oil-for-food programme does not work.
America is hoping for a decision by June 3rd, when the present oil-for-food programme has to be renewed.
Allegations of fraud and self-dealing surround the Iraqi oil-for-food programme carried out under its name in the 1990s.
The UN administered the oil-for-food programme from 1996 to 2003, when Saddam Hussein's Iraq was under sanctions for having invaded Kuwait.
UN's oil-for-food programme has stopped, along with the customs revenues that have been the two governments' lifeline, an economic crisis looms.
Last Friday, the Security Council voted unanimously to restart the oil-for-food programme under the control of the UN's secretary-general, Kofi Annan, for 45 days.
The oil-for-food programme was blocked by Saddam Hussein for five years.
Even after the oil-for-food programme started, it took another three or four years to replace damaged equipment because much of the gear could not be imported.
The allegations of fraud in the oil-for-food programme are being investigated separately by a commission headed by Paul Volcker, a former head of America's Federal Reserve.
An ongoing investigation into alleged fraud in the UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq has further fuelled criticism that the organisation is ineffectual at best, corrupt at worst.
The resumption of monitoring of dual-use goods would allow for the approval of a wider range of imports under the oil-for-food programme and the suspension of certain sanctions.
Rather, the oil-for-food programme can be and has been improved.
Mr Sistani argues, however, that the ration cards used for the UN's oil-for-food programme (which have just been reissued, without many hitches) could be used as voters' registration cards.
Until the war began, 60% of Iraqis relied on food distributed under the UN oil-for-food programme, which was suspended a couple of days before the first missiles fell on Baghdad.
The council also voted to extend the oil-for-food programme - which has since 1996 allowed Iraq to use oil revenues to buy basic necessities - for six months from 30 May.
Kurds, who have suffered economically since the fall of Saddam, want to see their slice of the national cake at or above the 13% of revenue that they got under the oil-for-food programme.
"Iraq will deal with Resolution 1409 adopted by the Security Council with regard to renewing the oil-for-food programme fro six months, " Iraqi Information Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf said in a statement carried by the official INA news agency.
The U.N. is to discuss this week extending the oil-for-food programme but could instead adopt a U.S. backed British plan for 'smart' sanctions. which would intend to target military sales while allowing more goods to be legally sold to Iraq.
UN's oil-for-food programme for ordinary Iraqis.
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