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...unlikely to agree that an incomplete declaration is, in itself, a basis for triggering a war, and they'd insist that the falsehoods that Britain and the U.S. allege the declaration contains must be verified by the UNMOVIC weapons inspection teams currently in Iraq. Although UNMOVIC chief Dr. Hans Blix is due to make a preliminary assessment of Iraq's declaration at a Security Council session today, UN officials are stressing the preliminary nature of that discussion and warning that no action should be expected from the session. UNMOVIC is scheduled on January 27 to make a comprehensive report...
...gaps in Iraq's weapons disclosure put it in "material breach" of UN Security Council Resolution 1441, says Washington. Yet the Bush Administration refrained Thursday from seeking UN endorsement of that view, and triggering an invasion of Iraq. Chief UN weapons inspector Dr. Hans Blix told the Council that Iraq's declaration contained little new information about its weapons programs and left key questions unanswered, and Secretary of State Colin Powell warned that Baghdad had failed "to move us in the direction of a peaceful resolution." But instead of demanding Security Council support for going to war, Powell emphasized...
Iraqi officials say they believe Washington suggested the choice of al-Sajoud palace that day to U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspections Commission (UNMOVIC) chief Hans Blix for a different reason. Iraqi officials assert that the Americans directed inspectors to the compound because they thought Saddam was in the area and they wanted to see how accurately U.S. intelligence was tracking his movements. However the site was chosen, Baghdad believes Washington may have wound up with useful information. Since the Tuesday-morning destination was a secret, inspectors were surprised to be greeted within 10 minutes of their arrival by none other...
...officials are deeply uneasy about encouraging defections. Blix insists the U.N. cannot force Iraqis to take such dangerous steps...
...Iraq's extended-family structures don't lend themselves to defection because of the number of people this would involve, and those left behind would be in peril. Nevertheless, Rice spent most of an hour pushing Blix hard to agree to pursue Point 5 rigorously. "We will get the information," says a senior U.S. official, "(and) cross the bridge" later on how to make the interviews safer...