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国际英语新闻:UN Security Council lifts sanctions against Iraq

2010-12-16来源:和谐英语

UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon speaks as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden looks on during a United Nations Security Council high level meeting on Iraq at the UN headquarters in New York, Dec. 15, 2010. The UN Security Council on Wednesday adopted a resolution to lift the Saddam-era sanctions against Iraq, which was imposed in 1991. In the new resolution, the 15-nation council decided to lift most international sanctions imposed on Iraq under the rule of former President Saddam Hussein.