Posted on 12/08/2002 9:08:05 PM PST by HAL9000
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 09, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- In a surprise decision late Sunday, the Security Council agreed to give the United States, Russia, France, China and Britain full access to Iraq's arms declaration, U.N. officials and diplomats said.
The council had said Friday that copies would be translated, analyzed and gleaned of sensitive material - including directions for bomb-making - before it was distributed to the council.
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Hmmmm .. could it be the someone doesn't trust the Security Council??
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - In a surprise decision late Sunday, the Security Council agreed to give the United States, Russia, France, China and Britain full access to Iraq's arms declaration, U.N. officials and diplomats said.The decision overrides one made Friday to distribute censored copies to the council and means that Washington won't have to wait to begin it's own analysis and translation of the 12,000 pages Iraq turned over to weapons inspectors on Saturday in Baghdad.
Under Sunday's agreement, the other 10 council members, including Syria, will only see the declaration once it is translated, analyzed and gleaned of sensitive material -- including possible instructions on bomb-making.
The decision was announced by Colombian Ambassador Alfonso Valdivieso, the current Security Council president, who met with chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix late Sunday, several hours after Iraq's long-awaited dossier arrived at U.N. headquarters.
"After consultation with the members of the Security Council, the presidency decided to allow access to the Iraqi declaration to those members with the expertise to assess the risk of proliferation and other sensitive information to begin its immediate review," he said.
U.N. officials said the only countries with that level of expertise are the five permanent members.
Valdivieso said the experts would work "in close coordination and consultation," with weapons inspectors and "will assist them in producing a working version of the declaration as soon as possible."
According to U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441, largely drafted by the Bush administration and passed on Nov. 8, any omission or false statement that Iraq makes in the declaration would constitute a "material breach," a distinction which could open the door for another war against Saddam Hussein.
It means Bush told the UN give it to us or we will just go ahead and attack Saddam while you are redacting. Bush had them told if you want to play games, go ahead. While you are playing those games we will win the war.
The UN after considering for 5 or 10 seconds said you can have everything.
. . . and just howth'hell do you expect me to get MY copy . . . hmmmm???
Not my post, hon. Sorry.
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