RUSSIAN TRADE GREATEST TO SUFFER WITH IRAQ SANCTIONS








ABU DHABI, March 1. /From RIA Novosti's Igor Kuznetsov/. With US$40 billion, Russia leads a list of countries to whom anti-Iraqi sanctions have brought commercial losses, Muhammad Salih, Iraq's Minister of Trade, said to newsmen.


	France comes in second with $35 bn, and China third with $30 bn. The USA, Great Britain and Turkey come next with $25 billion each.


	Other countries have lost a total $200 billion as trade with Iraq stopped and Iraqi petroleum exports shrank.


	The Iraqi-US trade turnover amounted to five billion dollars in 1990, added the minister.


	The UN Security Council introduced an economic blockade of Iraq after it annexed Kuwait, August 1990.