To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the verification of UN sanctions placed on Iraq in each of the last five years, including a list of imports and their sources. [102664]
Exports to Iraq are monitored by the UN Office of the Iraq Programme. They provide a breakdown of Iraqi imports by sector. The document is available on the Internet atthe following address http:// www.un.org/Depts/oip/background/basicfigures2.html.The following is a breakdown of Iraqi imports from EU countries over the last six years:
Value: US$000s
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January to June
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1997
| 1998
| 1999
| 2000
| 2001
| 2002
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| Austria | 1,490 | 9,671 | 12,341 | 28,740 | 76,845 | 58,677 |
| Sweden | 1,517 | 9,253 | 4,222 | 20,309 | 69,676 | 43,993 |
| Denmark | 7,131 | 15,195 | 8,402 | 20,165 | 39,298 | 17,947 |
| Netherlands | 12,559 | 24,977 | 42,752 | 32,522 | 37,693 | 24,026 |
| Finland | 269 | 1,377 | 6,884 | 7,744 | 8,981 | 3,359 |
| Greece | 188 | 2,040 | 870 | 4,093 | 5,868 | 16,314 |
| Portugal | 113 | 61 | 1,043 | 50 | 926 | - |
| Ireland | 46 | 204 | 949 | 4,915 | 303 | 1,070 |
| Luxembourg | — | — | — | 62 | 261 | 7,243 |
Fully comprehensive information concerning the source and type of goods imported by Iraq is not readily available, and would incur disproportionate cost to discover.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what arrangements he has made to compensate surviving family members of civilians killed by the United Kingdom and United States military campaign against Iraq. [104011]
The UK is committed to acting in accordance with international law. If military action is undertaken lawfully, no right to compensation arises. We have always been, and will remain, in the forefront of efforts to help the Iraqi people. Unlike Saddam Hussein, we have always tried to minimise the adverse effects of our actions on Iraqi civilians.