- BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi
authorities made public on Sunday an angry letter to the United Nations
over a tough U.N. resolution ahead of the first weapons inspections in
Iraq in four years.
-
- Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said in a November 23 letter
to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that Baghdad accepted U.N. resolution
1441 in hopes of sparing its people war but felt that the resolution provided
the United States with a pretext to launch an attack on Iraq.
-
- In the first detailed response since Iraq accepted the
Security Council resolution on November 13, Sabri gave an item by item
reply and reiterated a continuing theme.
-
- "The real motive was to create pretexts to attack
Iraq under an international cover," Sabri wrote in the letter, adding
that the resolution gave the U.N. inspectors tyrannical authority.
-
- Resolution 1441 obliges Baghdad to allow inspectors from
the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to
peer into every nook and cranny of the country in the search for weapons
of mass destruction.
-
- As part of the resolution Baghdad agreed to produce a
full account of its weapons program by a December 8 deadline and said U.N.
inspectors will be given free access to all sites across the country. The
inspectors must give their first report to the U.N. Security Council by
January 27.
-
- Iraq released the contents of the letter as the United
Nations declared its monitoring center at the former Canal Hotel in Baghdad
ready for the first group of 18 inspectors, who will arrive on Monday.
The first inspection mission is due on Wednesday.
-
- "We are in a position to receive the first group.
But we still have a lot of cleaning to do," Yashuhiro Ueki, the inspection
mission's spokesman in Iraq told reporters.
-
- His colleagues were busy fixing broken windows and sweeping
up mess accumulated since the last inspectors left in 1998.
-
- WAR OF WORDS
-
- Iraq insists it has no biological, chemical or nuclear
arms and IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei told reporters in Cairo on Sunday
night that inspectors will not be put off if Baghdad reiterates that line
when it gives its account on December 8.
-
- "Iraq is meant to present a declaration on December
8 and if it says that it doesn't have weapons of mass destruction then
we will continue inspections in order to be sure that this declaration
is correct and precise," ElBaradei said.
-
- President Bush said last week that Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein's days would be numbered if he carried on denying having weapons
of mass destruction.
-
- In Baghdad, Ueki said a hotline was being set up linking
the inspection mission's operations center and the National Monitoring
Directorate of Iraq.
-
- "The hotline is usually for crisis management,"
he added. "So if trouble happens we need to communicate with each
other."
-
- Twenty tones of equipment has been flown to Baghdad from
Larnaca, Cyprus, by U.N. aircraft, including communications gear, computers,
furniture and medicine.
-
- In Washington, the U.S. News and World Report said senior
Bush administration officials were mulling a three-stage plan for governing
a post-war Iraq that was put together by an inter-agency task force dubbed
the Executive Steering Group.
-
- The magazine said that under the first phase Iraq would
be ruled by the military, almost certainly a U.S. general. The second phase
would be an international civilian administration, entailing a diminished
U.S. military presence.
-
- Under the third phase, power would be transferred to
a representative, multi-ethnic Iraqi government after a constitutional
convention, according to the magazine.
-
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- Angry Iraq Says UN Resolution Just A Pretext For War
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- By Haitham Haddadin
- 11-25-2
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- BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities made public on
Sunday an angry letter to the United Nations over a tough U.N. resolution
ahead of the first weapons inspections in Iraq in four years.
-
- Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said in a November 23 letter
to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that Baghdad accepted U.N. resolution
1441 in hopes of sparing its people war but felt that the resolution provided
the United States with a pretext to launch an attack on Iraq.
-
- In the first detailed response since Iraq accepted the
Security Council resolution on November 13, Sabri gave an item by item
reply and reiterated a continuing theme.
-
- "The real motive was to create pretexts to attack
Iraq under an international cover," Sabri wrote in the letter, adding
that the resolution gave the U.N. inspectors tyrannical authority.
-
- Resolution 1441 obliges Baghdad to allow inspectors from
the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to
peer into every nook and cranny of the country in the search for weapons
of mass destruction.
-
- As part of the resolution Baghdad agreed to produce a
full account of its weapons program by a December 8 deadline and said U.N.
inspectors will be given free access to all sites across the country. The
inspectors must give their first report to the U.N. Security Council by
January 27.
-
- Iraq released the contents of the letter as the United
Nations declared its monitoring center at the former Canal Hotel in Baghdad
ready for the first group of 18 inspectors, who will arrive on Monday.
The first inspection mission is due on Wednesday.
-
- "We are in a position to receive the first group.
But we still have a lot of cleaning to do," Yashuhiro Ueki, the inspection
mission's spokesman in Iraq told reporters.
-
- His colleagues were busy fixing broken windows and sweeping
up mess accumulated since the last inspectors left in 1998.
-
- WAR OF WORDS
-
- Iraq insists it has no biological, chemical or nuclear
arms and IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei told reporters in Cairo on Sunday
night that inspectors will not be put off if Baghdad reiterates that line
when it gives its account on December 8.
-
- "Iraq is meant to present a declaration on December
8 and if it says that it doesn't have weapons of mass destruction then
we will continue inspections in order to be sure that this declaration
is correct and precise," ElBaradei said.
-
- President Bush said last week that Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein's days would be numbered if he carried on denying having weapons
of mass destruction.
-
- In Baghdad, Ueki said a hotline was being set up linking
the inspection mission's operations center and the National Monitoring
Directorate of Iraq.
-
- "The hotline is usually for crisis management,"
he added. "So if trouble happens we need to communicate with each
other."
-
- Twenty tones of equipment has been flown to Baghdad from
Larnaca, Cyprus, by U.N. aircraft, including communications gear, computers,
furniture and medicine.
-
- In Washington, the U.S. News and World Report said senior
Bush administration officials were mulling a three-stage plan for governing
a post-war Iraq that was put together by an inter-agency task force dubbed
the Executive Steering Group.
-
- The magazine said that under the first phase Iraq would
be ruled by the military, almost certainly a U.S. general. The second phase
would be an international civilian administration, entailing a diminished
U.S. military presence.
-
- Under the third phase, power would be transferred to
a representative, multi-ethnic Iraqi government after a constitutional
convention, according to the magazine.
-
-
-
-
- Copyright © 2002 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited
without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable
for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance
thereon.
(Reuters) - Iraqi authorities made public on Sunday an angry letter to
the United Nations over a tough U.N. resolution ahead of the first weapons
inspections in Iraq in four years.
-
- Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said in a November 23 letter
to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that Baghdad accepted U.N. resolution
1441 in hopes of sparing its people war but felt that the resolution provided
the United States with a pretext to launch an attack on Iraq.
-
- In the first detailed response since Iraq accepted the
Security Council resolution on November 13, Sabri gave an item by item
reply and reiterated a continuing theme.
-
- "The real motive was to create pretexts to attack
Iraq under an international cover," Sabri wrote in the letter, adding
that the resolution gave the U.N. inspectors tyrannical authority.
-
- Resolution 1441 obliges Baghdad to allow inspectors from
the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to
peer into every nook and cranny of the country in the search for weapons
of mass destruction.
-
- As part of the resolution Baghdad agreed to produce a
full account of its weapons program by a December 8 deadline and said U.N.
inspectors will be given free access to all sites across the country. The
inspectors must give their first report to the U.N. Security Council by
January 27.
-
- Iraq released the contents of the letter as the United
Nations declared its monitoring center at the former Canal Hotel in Baghdad
ready for the first group of 18 inspectors, who will arrive on Monday.
The first inspection mission is due on Wednesday.
-
- "We are in a position to receive the first group.
But we still have a lot of cleaning to do," Yashuhiro Ueki, the inspection
mission's spokesman in Iraq told reporters.
-
- His colleagues were busy fixing broken windows and sweeping
up mess accumulated since the last inspectors left in 1998.
-
- WAR OF WORDS
-
- Iraq insists it has no biological, chemical or nuclear
arms and IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei told reporters in Cairo on Sunday
night that inspectors will not be put off if Baghdad reiterates that line
when it gives its account on December 8.
-
- "Iraq is meant to present a declaration on December
8 and if it says that it doesn't have weapons of mass destruction then
we will continue inspections in order to be sure that this declaration
is correct and precise," ElBaradei said.
-
- President Bush said last week that Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein's days would be numbered if he carried on denying having weapons
of mass destruction.
-
- In Baghdad, Ueki said a hotline was being set up linking
the inspection mission's operations center and the National Monitoring
Directorate of Iraq.
-
- "The hotline is usually for crisis management,"
he added. "So if trouble happens we need to communicate with each
other."
-
- Twenty tones of equipment has been flown to Baghdad from
Larnaca, Cyprus, by U.N. aircraft, including communications gear, computers,
furniture and medicine.
-
- In Washington, the U.S. News and World Report said senior
Bush administration officials were mulling a three-stage plan for governing
a post-war Iraq that was put together by an inter-agency task force dubbed
the Executive Steering Group.
-
- The magazine said that under the first phase Iraq would
be ruled by the military, almost certainly a U.S. general. The second phase
would be an international civilian administration, entailing a diminished
U.S. military presence.
-
- Under the third phase, power would be transferred to
a representative, multi-ethnic Iraqi government after a constitutional
convention, according to the magazine.
-
-
-
-
- Copyright © 2002 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited
without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable
for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance
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