Iraq on Thursday slammed the United Nations for extending sanctions against Baghdad for another six months but said it would continue to cooperate with the U.N. on an oil-for-food exchange. The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday unanimously approved the biggest overhaul of sanctions in years in an effort at speeding up the delivery of civilian goods for ordinary Iraqis suffering the impact of the 12-year-old Gulf War embargo. But it maintained a ban on military and dual-use technical goods to contain Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's military capability. "Iraq deserves complete lifting of the embargo and not imposing new restrictions on an already complicated regime," Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahafa said in a statement issued by the official Iraqi news agency INA.