] NEW YORK (CNN) -- French diplomats at the United Nations
] have put forward a proposal for a new weapons monitoring
] regime for Iraq that would result in lifting the oil
] embargo imposed after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
]
] And in a direct swipe at the United Nations' existing
] weapons inspection program for Iraq, the French proposal
] said "it is high time for the Security Council to
] recognize that no additional progress on disarmament work
] can be reached by an illusory resumption of unchanged
] previous methods."
]
] U.N. weapons inspectors left Iraq in December before
] airstrikes by the United States and Britain. They have
] not returned, and Iraqi officials have vowed to keep them
] out.

CNN - French propose new Iraqi inspection program, end of oil embargo - January 13, 1999