Mr. Hamadi again appealed to the Security Council to relax sanctions by allowing Iraq to sell some oil to finance purchases of food and other essential imports.

Several experts said the talks would be fruitless unless the United States relaxed economic and financial sanctions on the North.

Relaxes sanctions against Libya.

He said Western governments should relax sanctions against China only when it freed imprisoned dissidents and returned human rights to its citizens.

Why not offer instead to relax existing sanctions - providing that Cuba verifiably permits real dissent, frees political prisoners and ends persecution of human rights monitors?

The Oxford based charity is calling on the United Nations to relax sanctions against Saddam Hussein's regime on humanitarian grounds.

Oxfam is now calling on the United Nations to relax sanctions against Iraq to allow the import of humanitarian items such as school eqipment.

At the Feira European Council it was decided to relax sanctions.

Reports that could persuade the President to relax or drop sanctions on $300 million of imports from Japan are being studied by his top economic policy team, officials disclosed.

Third, U.N. pressure to relax sanctions against Iraq mounts as reports grow of dire food and pharmaceuticals shortages.