‘A Delicate Business’: Did AWB's Kickbacks to Iraq under the United Nations Oil-For-Food Programme Constitute a Violation of Australia's International Obligations?
SANCTIONS, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND GOVERNANCE IN A GLOBALISED WORLD, Jeremy Farrall & Kim Rubenstein, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2009
21 Pages Posted: 2 Aug 2010
Date Written: 2009
Abstract
The object of this chapter is to show that Australia did not violate its international legal obligations as a result of the kickbacks by AWB to the former Iraqi regime under the United Nations Food-For-Oil Programme (OFFP), but that the AWB scandal showed systemic failures in effective domestic governance and the appropriate conduct of Australia's foreign policy, compounded by a failure of accountability when the AWB scandal was exposed.
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Boreham, Kevin, ‘A Delicate Business’: Did AWB's Kickbacks to Iraq under the United Nations Oil-For-Food Programme Constitute a Violation of Australia's International Obligations? (2009). SANCTIONS, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND GOVERNANCE IN A GLOBALISED WORLD, Jeremy Farrall & Kim Rubenstein, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2009 , ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 10-49, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1650947
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