Editing Oil-for-Food Programme (section)

{{short description|Programme headed by the United Nations}}
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{{Infobox organization
| image         =UN Emblem "Oil-for-Food".jpg
| image_size    = 200px
| name         = Oil-for-Food Programme
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| type         = 
| abbreviation     = OIP, OFFP
| leader_title  = Head
| leader_name         = [[Benon Sevan]]
| status       = Dissolved in 2003
| formation  = 1995
| website      = {{URL|https://www.un.org/Depts/oip}}
| parent_organization       = [[United Nations Secretariat]]
| subsidiaries = 
| commons      = 
| footnotes    = 
}}
The '''Oil-for-Food Programme''' ('''OIP''') was established by the [[United Nations]] in 1995 (under [[United Nations Security Council|UN Security Council]] [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 986|Resolution 986]])<ref name="UN_SRES9861995">{{UN document |docid=S-RES-986(1995) |type=Resolution |body=Security Council |year=1995 |resolution_number=986 |accessdate=2008-04-09|date=14 April 1995}}</ref> to allow [[Iraq]] to sell [[Petroleum|oil]] on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and other humanitarian needs for ordinary Iraqi citizens without allowing Iraq to boost its military capabilities.

The programme was introduced by United States President [[Bill Clinton]]'s [[Clinton Administration|administration]] in 1995,<ref>Traub, James. "Off Target." ''New Republic'' 232.6 (21 February 2005): 14–17. ''Academic Search Premier''. Web. 12 December 2011.</ref> as a response to arguments that ordinary Iraqi citizens were inordinately affected by the international [[economic sanctions]] aimed at the [[Demilitarized zone|demilitarisation]] of [[Saddam Hussein]]'s Iraq, imposed in the wake of the first [[Gulf War]]. The sanctions were discontinued on 21 November 2003 after the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|U.S. invasion of Iraq]], and the humanitarian functions turned over to the [[Coalition Provisional Authority]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/Depts/oip/ |title=UN Office of the Iraq Program – Oil-for-Food |publisher=United Nations |access-date=7 December 2011}}</ref>

The programme was ''de facto'' terminated in 2003 and ''de jure'' terminated in 2010. Although the sanctions were effective, there were revelations of widespread corruption in the programme and abuse of its funds.