Butler: UN to Confront Iraq With New Weapons Demands
May 27, 1998 - 0:0
SYDNEY UN weapons inspectors are to confront Iraq with new information on its arms program and demand it surrender the last of its illegal weapons, the Head of the UN Inspection Team Richard Butler said here Tuesday. Butler said the data, which would be presented to the UN Security Council on June 3, included newly declassified information and photographs taken from U2 spy planes.
The Australian official said he would also present the details to Iraq's foreign minister in New York this week in a move he described as risky but necessary. I now propose that ... we design a road map, we tell them the last remaining pieces we need to give a full account of their missile, chemical and biological weapons, he told a foreign correspondents assoiation.
And that they work with us and position me to be able to ... go to the council in October and say, `it's done'. Butler said he had no idea if Iraq would accept the plan, which he saw as a fast-track path to the lifting of sanctions that have crippled Iraq. (AFP)
The Australian official said he would also present the details to Iraq's foreign minister in New York this week in a move he described as risky but necessary. I now propose that ... we design a road map, we tell them the last remaining pieces we need to give a full account of their missile, chemical and biological weapons, he told a foreign correspondents assoiation.
And that they work with us and position me to be able to ... go to the council in October and say, `it's done'. Butler said he had no idea if Iraq would accept the plan, which he saw as a fast-track path to the lifting of sanctions that have crippled Iraq. (AFP)