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...ronald zak/AP ?We have the legal authority now? Mohamed ElBaradei is head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Eighteen of his inspectors are waiting to return to Iraq to hunt for nuclear weapons. He spoke to Time's Andrew Purvis in Vienna. Excerpts: TIME: When will inspectors be going back to Iraq? ElBaradei: I hope in the next few weeks. We have the legal authority now. But we thought it would be a good idea to see whether a new Security Council resolution will strengthen our hand. TIME: What do you need from the Council? ElBaradei: A firm resolve...
Nowak was born in Vienna and earned his Ph.D from the University of Vienna. From 1989 to 1998 he worked at Oxford University, where he was a professor of mathematical biology from...
Iraq's latest agreement to unfettered arms inspections may be just what Secretary of State Colin Powell had been trying to avoid. Not that Powell is in any rush to go to war, but the deal hammered out Tuesday in Vienna after two days of talks between Iraqi officials and UN arms inspectors is based on existing UN resolutions, rather than the tough new ultimatum for which Washington has been pushing at the Security Council. And that could make the difference, for London and Washington, between effective and ineffective inspections. Most irksome to the U.S. in the current deal...
...attack Iraq closely to UN authorization of military action. Securing consensus at the UN behind a tough disarmament regime backed by an "or else" ultimatum remains a key goal for the Bush administration - but one that is proving to be elusive, and may be more so following the Vienna deal...
...When Saddam offered two weeks ago to submit to unfettered inspections, the Security Council's response was to send UN inspection chief Hans Blix to Vienna to discuss practical arrangements for resuming such inspections. But in the absence of any new Security Council resolution changing the terms of inspections, Blix is working off the existing script - one which is unlikely to satisfy U.S. demands. Indeed, media reports claim that a new Security Council draft resolution being proposed by the U.S. and Britain includes demands for access to the presidential sites and all other government buildings and mosques; for security forces...