Mark Vaile (Lyne, National Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

The point that I was making in reference to the question that was last asked by the member for Griffith was that the UN oil for food contracts were the responsibility of the UN’s section 661 sanctions committee. In terms of an export, after the contracts were certified and signed off on by the UN, we issued export permits. We had nothing to do with the pricing of the contracts or the contracts themselves. The UN’s responsibility was the oil for food contracts.

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