After failing to win support for an oil embargo against the United States and other allies of Israel, the Iraqi Cabinet voted Sunday to resume oil exports beginning midnight on Tuesday, national television reported. President Saddam Hussein presided over the Cabinet meeting, television reported
.Referring to Iraq's unilateral suspension of oil exports, the Cabinet statement added: "Suffice that we expressed the conscience of the (Arab) nation."
The television quoted Saddam as saying during that meeting: "We consider that the Palestinian stand has triumphed, thanks to the determination of the heroic Palestinian people."
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