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Anglo-Iraq Payments Agreement

Volume 445: debated on Tuesday 9 December 1947

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58.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why, under Article II of the Anglo-Iraq Payments Agreement, His Majesty's Government have undertaken to make good Iraq trading deficits with specified hard currency countries individually, irrespective of any surplus of hard currency that Iraq may obtain through trade with other members of the same specified countries.

The effect of Article II is not as suggested. Article III is the operative one for this purpose.