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Tuesday, January 28, 2003 THE BATTALIOfi
S. warns against inaction against Baghdad
By Dafna Linzer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Top weapons inspector Hans Blix on Monday
said Baghdad had not genuinely accepted U.N.
resolutions demanding that it disarm, while his
counterpart Mohamed ElBaradei said there was
no evidence so far that Iraq was reviving its
nuclear program and asked for a “few months” to
complete the search.
Asked whether the threat from Saddam was
imminent. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer
said, “From the president’s point of view, it
remains a very grave threat.”
Other Security Council members with the same
veto power as the United States disagreed.
“The job has not been completed. We share
the view of many that this process has not been
completed and more time is needed,” said
China’s deputy U.N. ambassador Zhang Yishan.
Russian Ambassador Sergey Lavrov said his
country strongly supported calls “for inspections
to continue.”
France’s U.N. Ambassador Jean-Marc de la
Sabliere also supported the need for inspections
“to go forward...with the objective of Iraq’s ver
ifiable disarmament,” adding that it could be
“several weeks” or “a few months.” He said
there was strong backing in the 15-member
council for additional time.
“The purpose of this exercise is not inspections
but the disarmament of Iraq. Our quarrel is with
Iraq’s behavior in this process,” he said.
The differing views on the inspectors’ reports
could make or break international support for mil
itary intervention in Iraq. Iraqi Ambassador
Mohammed al-Douri defended his country’s
actions. “We open all doors to Mr. Blix and his
team. If there is something, he will find it. We
have no hidden reports at all.”
ElBaradei, head of the International
Atomic Energy Agency,
said so far nuclear inspec-—
tions of 106 sites had u
turned up nothing.
“We have to date found no
evidence that Iraq has revived
its nuclear program since the
elimination of the program in
the 1990s. However, our
work is steadily progressing
and should be allowed to run
its natural course.
“With our verification
system now in place, barring exceptional circum
stances and provided there is sustained proactive
cboperation by Iraq, we should be able within the
next few months to provide credible assurance
that Iraq has no nuclear weapons program..
In a toughly-worded assessment of Iraq’s
cooperation with 60 days of inspections,
Blix, head of the U.N. Monitoring,
Verification and Inspection Commission,
chided the Iraqis for failing to cooperate on
substance “in order to bring the disarma
ment task to completion, through the peace
ful process of inspection, and to bring the
monitoring task on a firm course.”
So far, he said: “Iraq appears not to have come
to a genuine acceptance, not even today, of the dis-
armament that was demanded of it.” He did not
specifically call for more time but made clear that
his inspectors have only just begun their work.
Most of the Security Council believes that’s a
determination they must make based on the
inspectors’ assessments. The 15
members of the Security
Council will reconvene
Wednesday, a day after
President Bush delivers the
State of the Union address, to
discuss the inspectors’ reports
and begin debate on Iraq. In the
meantime, Blix and ElBaradei
will update the council again on
Feb. 14.
He noted that Iraq’s 12,000
page arms declaration con
tained little more than old
material in the areas of chemical and biological
weapons and said his teams now believe Iraq’s
claims that it was unsuccessful in producing the
VX nerve agent, were untrue. “There are indica
tions that the agent was weaponized,” Blix said.
Inspectors have also discovered a mustard gas
precursor during recent inspections.
On biological weapons, Blix said Iraq had
failed to produce “convincing evidence” that it
unilaterally destroyed its anthrax stockpiles and
that there are indications that Iraq could have had
larger quantities than it reported to inspectors.
ElBaradei said his teams had concluded thi
aluminum tubes Iraq had tried to import wereeai
marked for missile programs and not for a nuclei
program, as the Bush administration claimed las
fall. But he said the investigation continued.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri saidthatb
nation has cooperated fully with weapons inspet
tors and he accused the United States and Britai:
of setting the stage for an unjustified attack.
He said accusations against Iraq by U.S. offi
cials were “all lies to hide America’s true intet
tions” which he said were to take control ofta
nation’s oil resources and protect “Amenta:
interests in Israel.”
Despite assurances from Iraq that it wont:
encourage its scientists to submit to private inta
views, no such interviews have taken place an:
Baghdad continues to block inspectors fromusin;
a U-2 reconnaissance plane that could be helplii
in the hunt for weapnjns of mass destruction.
Blix noted that Iraq had provided new infomia
tion “in the fields of missiles and biotechnolog)
and said he would ask the Iraqis to stop testsa
two types of missiles while inspectors detemiit
their actual range and capabilities.
Annan said he remained hopeful that In
could be disarmed peacefully and he praisedBh
and ElBaradei, whom he called “determinedaa:
independent-minded.”
The White House reacted with skepticism.
“When people say give them more time,tit
more time they get the more time they gettit
run-around,” White House spokesman Ar
Fleischer said.
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point of view, it remains a
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very grave threat.
— Ari Fleischer
White House spokesman
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