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-->U.S. Flies in Millions of Dollars for Iraq
Thu April 17, 2003 04:51 AM ET
KUWAIT (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve is flying in millions of dollars to pay Iraqi civil servants and start rebuilding Iraq, a U.S. official said on Thursday.
Using $1.7 billion in frozen Iraqi assets seized in the United States, Washington is set to start $20-per-head payments within days to up to 2.5 million Iraqi civil servants.
"When you are flying in planes that have millions on them, you don't want to discuss timing or when and where," the official told Reuters.
"The money, and it is millions, is mainly to pay civil servant salaries, but some of it will go for reconstruction."
Analysts have said it could cost $100 billion to rebuild Iraq, a country battered by two wars in two decades and 12 years of United Nations sanctions.
Iraq, which sits on the world's second largest oil reserves, needs quick infusions of cash because it cannot resume oil exports without legal sanction from the United Nations.
The U.S. official said the Fed was in charge of providing the cash and could not say if more shipments were scheduled.
U.S. officials said on Wednesday that the $20 payments to civil servants will be critical to getting the economy moving again. Iraqis will have to cope with a hotchpotch of currencies including the dollar, other western currencies and the Saddam-era dinar for some time until a new Iraqi authority can implement a new currency, they added.
<ul> ~ Quelle: Reuters</ul>
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