Word: unscom
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...TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer says the U.S. could be persuaded to accept such a deal if Iraq guarantees to destroy these weapons and allows UNSCOM the unfettered right to monitor the process. Washington could even accept a change in the composition of UNSCOM to achieve more participation by officials from different countries, says Fischer...
...insiders remain skeptical over whether Baghdad will accept such a deal. "There is a lot of suspicion here that Saddam wants to maintain the option of developing weapons of mass destruction, and that Iraq will not therefore agree to allow UNSCOM to freely perform its duties," says Fischer...
...expect a bleary-eyed Albright to be waving a peace agreement in the Geneva dawn. But if the carrot of an end to sanctions has indeed convinced Baghdad to allow UNSCOM to continue its work, the Iraq crisis may yet be resolved without any missiles being launched...
...That the Americans were allowed to be divided off from the rest of UNSCOM at the end was at least a symbolic victory for Saddam, and the kind of "illegal separation of nationalities" that chief inspector Richard Butler had railed against. Not to worry. "We have a job to do, and we hope to return," said inspector Alan Dacey. MacArthur couldn't have said it better...
...Alleging U.S. domination of UNSCOM, Aziz intimated that Iraq had proposed to the U.N. that the crisis could be resolved via a new inspection team composed of representatives from Security Council countries (including the U.S.) in equal proportion ? while insisting that Iraq had nothing to hide on the chemical weapons issue...