Baghdad's representative to the United Nations in Geneva said in a statement that it "could not rule out that the committee is taking the money of the Iraqi people and giving it to fictional beneficiaries," the official INA news agency reported.

It said that ``in the future several cases will be revealed which will prove that the compensation process imposed on Iraq is against all international rules of justice."

It also accused the Geneva-based UN Compensation Committee (UNCC) of "handing over large sums of money without justification" and called for the publication of a list of those countries it said had not distributed their allotted funds.

"Because it has not fulfilled its legal and moral responsibilities, the UNCC must agree to Iraq's justified requests and act in accordance withinternational law," it said.

The UNCC said in March that several countries, which it declined to name, had not yet distributed monies they had received from the committee.The UNCC has so far distributed some 2.7 billion dollars in compensation for the 1990 Kuwait invasion.