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Iraq

Volume 400: debated on Monday 24 February 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to pursue the claims of UK shareholders in respect of the 1974 nationalisation of the Iraqi oil industry. [98105]

I understand that we have no record of any recent approaches on this subject from British companies which held shares in the former Iraq Petroleum company prior to its nationalisation.