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...bioweapons can be hidden almost anywhere and scientific amateurs can turn them out in a small room in a country the size of California, how can U.N. inspectors hope to find them? No matter what deal Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz may have struck with Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov, the Iraqis are unlikely to be any more cooperative than they were before. That is, not at all. Since March 1996, the inspectors have headed for 63 sites where they suspected the Iraqis were hiding weapons, banned equipment or secret records. The U.N. teams were physically turned away from...
...next time Iraq bars the door of a barracks or a palace that the inspectors want to investigate? Past performance is not encouraging: after 25 cases of interference earlier this year, the Security Council could not even agree to increase travel restrictions on senior Iraqi officials. With Primakov having brokered a deal with Iraq to push for an end to sanctions, Moscow may be planning to veto any effort to increase the punishment...
...veto power. In the next week Clinton will try to get those allies on board in some fashion by asking them to try to change Saddam's mind. Clinton planned to speak on the phone over the weekend with both Boris Yeltsin and Jacques Chirac; Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov, who has been in frequent contact with Iraqi leaders, would like to play peace broker. If Clinton asked him to fly to Baghdad, he would happily do so. But Clinton isn't optimistic about diplomacy's chances, and there is no sign that either France or Russia is willing...
...down to the deal brokered by Russia Wednesday ? and don?t think Moscow isn?t going to crow about it. ?Without any use of violence, any use of weapons, without a show of force, it was achieved through diplomatic means,? said Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov after the emergency middle-of-the-night meeting between permanent Security Council members in Geneva...
...Albright was only the opening act. Rotund Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov, decked out in the striped garb of a Black Sea Navy sailor, was judged a close second for his delegation's hearty performance of "Moscow Nights" ("The Russkies are your friends...."), while a troupe of breakdancing South Korean diplomats easily won the award for "Most Outrageous...