Iraq: Barham Saleh, Anne-Marie Idrac and Majnoon oil fieldnote

French Minister of State for Foreign Trade Anne-Marie Idrac paid last week a visit to Baghdad. She is reported to have asked Iraqi officials to reactivate the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the former Saddam’s regime and Total of France on the Majnoon oil field in southern Iraq. The following 344-word report focuses on the issue and tells how Deputy PM Barham Saleh and Oil Minister Hussein Al-Shahrastani reacted to the French demand.