BAGHDAD, Aug 5 (Reuter) - Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz met European Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Emma Bonino on Tuesday, the official Iraqi News Agency INA said. INA said Aziz urged European countries to "adopt a legal and just stand towards Iraq and the (U.N.) embargo," imposed because of Baghdad's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Bonino said on her arrival on Monday with a 15-strong team of officials and aid experts that she was here on a "humanitarian mission," to assess the country's humanitarian needs. The agency said Bonino also met Iraqi Health Minister Umeed Madhat Mubarak and discussed with him hospitals' need for medicines. Bonino later left Baghdad for Iraq's Kurdish north, which has been out of the control of the central government since the 1991 Gulf War which drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. The United Nations imposed strict trade sanctions on Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait, including a ban on exports of Iraq's oil. But since last December the U.N. has allowed Baghdad to sell $2 billion

worth of oil to buy food, medicine and other humanitarian goods to help offset the effects of the embargo on the Iraqi people.