Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. I refer to his statement in this place yesterday that ‘The contracts were not with Saddam Hussein; the contracts were with the United Nations oil for food program.’ Why did the Deputy Prime Minister make this claim when these two contracts, dated 16 July 2002 and 14 December 2002, clearly list the Director-General of the Grain Board of Iraq and AWB Ltd as the contracting parties, and not the UN as he claimed?

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

I made that comment yesterday on the basis that the contracts were clearly negotiated with the Iraq program people at the United Nations.