"We denounce this immoral and inhuman behaviour by the United States and Britain to block the oil-for-food programme," Iraq's Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh told a news conference.
He said UN Secretary General Kofi Annan had submitted to pressure from the United States and Britain, who are launching a war against Iraq to oust President Saddam Hussein.
"The UN secretary-general and the organisation are requested to allow immediately the entry of food and medicine and not to submit to the influence and will of the evil U.S. administration if the UN cares for peace and the well-being of people," he said.
Saleh said most of the food and medicine ships and lorries were either at sea or at Iraq's borders when they were blocked from entering as a result of Annan's decision.
He said he had written to the Jordanian authorities urging them to allow trucks carrying food and medicine into Iraq.
The UN allows Iraq, which has been hard hit by economic sanctions imposed by the United Nations after Baghdad's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, to sell oil to raise money for food, medicine and other humanitarian purposes.
Contracts for goods as well as oil sales are approved by the United Nations, which has a dollar-based escrow account at the New York branch of the French bank BNP-Paribas. More than $21 billion is in the bank, Saleh said.
Saleh said Iraqis had food and medicine stocks to last them "more than six months".
"The Iraqi people do not need American and British humanitarian aid. We do not accept aid from those who are killing our children and women and destroying our infrastructure," Saleh added.
He said trucks were delivering additional supplies of food to Iraqis in the southern towns of Nassiriya and Basra, now gripped by fierce fighting between Iraqi militias and U.S. and British troops.
The United Nations said Basra, Iraq's second city with a population of two million, faced a humanitarian crisis if water supplies were not swiftly restored.
Saleh said President Saddam Hussein had ordered "the best quality" food and medicines to be provided for the small number of U.S. and British soldiers taken captive.
