HL Deb 22 January 1997 vol 577 c57WA
Lord Avebury

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What is their assessment of the value of oil products being exported to Turkey by Iraq in road tankers, and whether this trade will be counted towards the total of $1 billion mentioned in paragraph I of Security Council Resolution 986 of 14th April 1995.

Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

We believe that up to 1,000 lorries a day are involved in cross-border trade between Turkey and Iraq. The Turkish authorities are reported to allow each lorry to import into Turkey between 4-5 tonnes of oil. We do not know how many lorries carry this maximum, nor the total value of such imports. Any such imports would not come within the scope of SCR 986, which requires that exports of petroleum and petroleum products must go either via Mina Al Bakr or via the Kirkuk-Yirmatalik pipeline.