DATE=12/11/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-242820
TITLE=IRAQ / U-N FRIDAY (S ONLY)
BYLINE=SCOTT BOBB
DATELINE=CAIRO
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: IN IRAQ, U-N WEAPONS INSPECTORS CONTINUED THEIR WORK
FRIDAY -- THIS, FOUR WEEKS AFTER IRAQ AGREED TO RESUME
COOPERATION WITH THE UNITED NATIONS DISARMAMENT PROGRAM. MIDDLE
EAST CORRESPONDENT SCOTT BOBB REPORTS THAT U-N OFFICIALS SAY THE
INSPECTIONS HAVE BEEN GOING WELL -- EXCEPT FOR A FEW ISOLATED
INSTANCES.
TEXT: U-N INSPECTORS WENT OUT FRIDAY, BUT ACTIVITY AT THE U-N
COMPOUND IN BAGHDAD WAS LIGHTER THAN NORMAL.
U-N CHIEF WEAPONS INSPECTOR RICHARD BUTLER SAID INSPECTORS HAD
GOOD REASON TO VISIT THE BAGHDAD HEADQUARTERS OF THE RULING
BA'ATH PARTY TWO DAYS AGO. INSPECTORS WERE DENIED ACCESS TO THE
SITE BY THE LOCAL PARTY CHIEF, WHO SAID THERE WAS NOTHING THERE
RELATED TO THE DISARMAMENT PROGRAM.
MR. BUTLER ISSUED A REPORT THURSDAY SAYING HIS STAFF HAD BEEN
HINDERED IN ITS WORK ON TWO OTHER OCCASIONS. HE DID NOT INDICATE
WHETHER HE WILL CERTIFY THAT IRAQ HAS FULLY COMPLIED WITH THE
INSPECTIONS PROGRAM.
THE U-N SECURITY COUNCIL SAYS IF THERE IS FULL COMPLIANCE, IT
WILL UNDERTAKE A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE DISARMAMENT PROGRAM,
WHICH IRAQ HOPES WILL LEAD TO A LIFTING OF CRIPPLING ECONOMIC
SANCTIONS. (SIGNED)
NEB/SB/PCF
11-Dec-98 5:59 AM EST (1059 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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