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Tuesday, June 3, 2003
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Summit leaders pledge teamwori
By Deborah Seward
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EVIAN, France — President George W.
Bush’s fiercest opponents over Iraq worked
to put the war and the rift with America
behind them Monday, with French President
Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder pledging firm support to
build a stable and prosperous Iraq.
But charges the United States and Britain
used flawed intelligence about Iraq’s
weapons of mass destruction to justify the
war cast a dark shadow on the summit.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair rejected the
accusations, leading a chorus of defensive
comments around the globe from America
and its allies over why they went to war.
Summit host Chirac and other G-8 leaders
meeting in this Alpine resort projected out
ward harmony. Leaders who vehemently
opposed Bush’s war decision made a con
spicuous show of shaking his hand. Privately,
the leaders purposefully shrank from dis
cussing their differences over the war and
tried to propel their relationships forward.
“We had a good meeting. Because it
could have been a disaster,” Canadian Prime
Minister Jean Chretien told reporters.
“We realized we had to look to the future
instead of the past, and everybody took that
stand, with positive effect,” he said. “It was
very cordial from all sides.”
There were even warm words between
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Brazil President Lula Da Silva stands with President George W. Bush during the Group of Eight
Summit in Evian, France. World leaders have pledged to work together to address rebuilding Iraq.
Bush and Chirac — estranged after Fraiio
actively campaigned against the war.
Bush praised Chirac’s knowledge of |
Middle East and promised to consult hiinu
his diplomatic push to resolve the Israeli
Palestinian conflict. The two leaders mayevti
meet in the United States in September all
sidelines of the United Nations, Chirac said
“French-U.S. relations are 200 yearso!
and will, believe me, continue for a
time,” he said.
More than forgotten, the acrimony oft
past months was being buried.
“We must be frank. We went
difficult period. There was no questioa
where Jacques Chirac stood” on the
Bush said. “That is why I can say we
good relations, because we are able to bf
very honest with each other.”
Spinning ahead, the German chancellor's
chief political adviser said that Europe anl
the United States were equally committedio
establishing a stable Iraq. Still, none
G-8 nations made new offers to support Ik
rebuilding effort financially, although Ik
United States is planning to hold a
conference among rich nations later thisyear
Schroeder, speaking to German
sion, described broad agreement “to
behind the conflicts over the Iraq war.
On other topics, the leaders claimed tb
they had addressed some concerns raised by
anti-globalization protesters, devoting!
record amount of time to discussions toallf
viate poverty in developing countries.
The leaders exchanged views on econ®
ic reforms and said there were hopeful signs
that stronger economic growth was on I
way in the United States, Europe and Japan
Chirac called the economic discussions
“very positive” and said the leaders expressed
a “message of confidence” that their
tries could achieve higher growth rates
They pledged to redouble efforts to
counter global terrorism, focusing on
issues as blocking financing and
safe haven to terrorists. And they issued a
strong statement urging North Korea to dis
mantle any nuclear weapons programs and
underlining the danger posed by Irani
advanced nuclear program.
But Chretien said the stern warning for
Iran to comply with the Non-Proliferation
Treaty was not a prelude to military actioi
— another reminder of how talk of theta]
war hung over the meeting.
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UNITED NATIONS — U.N.
inspectors found no evidence
Iraq had weapons of mass
destruction but had many ques
tions and leads to pursue when
their searches were suspended
just before the U.S.-led invasion,
chief inspector Hans Blix said in
his final report Monday.
But the United States and
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own teams and Blix said they
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continuation or resumption of
programs of weapons of mass
destruction or significant quanti
ties of proscribed items.”
But, he said, the inspectors
had many questions about its
chemical and biological pro
grams when they left shortly
before the March 20 invasion.
Inspectors also didn’t have
time to follow up on some late
information provided by the
Saddam Hussein government —
including interviewing a list of
Iraqis who helped destroy anthrax
after the 1991 Gulf War, he said.
The United States and Britain
used the claim that Iraq had ille
gal weapons programs as a
major reason for the war that
toppled Saddam Hussein’s
regime. The failure of U.S. and
British teams to find any nuclear,
chemical or biological weapons
in the 11 weeks since combat
ended has become a major issue
in Washington, London and
other international capitals.
President Bush said this
weekend that weapons had been
found. As evidence, however, he
pointed to two two suspected
mobile biological laboratories,
which both the Pentagon and
American weapons hunters have
said do not constitute arms.
Blix said in his 40-page
report that Iraq denied any such
units existed and had provided
U.N. inspectors “with pictures of
legitimate vehicles, which, they
suggested, could have led to the
information.”
He noted, however, that
“none of the vehicles in these
pictures look like the truefc
recently described and depict
by the U.S.-led teams hunt
for weapons.
Blix is retiring after his c
tract as executive chairman
the United Nations Monitoring,
Verification and Inspection
Commission, known
UNMOVIC, ends on June 30,
His report detailed the efforts
of his inspectors, who were
allowed back in late Novembet
after a four-year absence. Tlteit
searches for banned weapons
were suspended on March
U.N. inspections uncovereJ
“a small number of undeclared
empty chemical warheads
appear to have been produced
prior to 1990,” he said.
These were destroyed
with a few other proscribed
items and some 70 AI Samoud
missiles with a range beyondtk
92-mile limit allowed
U.N. resolutions.
While Iraq’s cooperation will
U.N. inspectors started improv
ing in late January and inspec
tors got “a better understands
of past weapons programs,”
said, “little progress was
the solution” of outstanding dis
armament issues.
Extensive excavations
Iraqis, which were witnessedb)
U.N. inspectors, showed
Iraq had destroyed a large
ber of R400 bombs containing!
biological agent, as it
claimed. But the excavations
couldn’t verify the amount of
agent produced or destroyed,
said.
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Another SARS death
reported in Canada
TORONTO (AP) - Officials
announced another death and
10 more SARS cases in Canada's
largest city Monday and said they
would review how they handled
a renewed outbreak of the flu
like illness after accusations that
warnings were ignored.
Signaling that the crisis may be
easing in Asia, China reported no
new cases of SARS on Monday
for the first time since April, while
Taiwan reported only one new
SARS case on Tuesday, the lowest
since the island's first hospital
outbreak erupted in late April.
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time to think that SARS has beer
beaten," said Bob Dietz, tbe
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spokesman in Beijing. "No one
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The global death toll from
SARS rose to at least 772 on
Monday with two new death
reported in China, one in Hong
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