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To: NickSE who wrote (72847)	2/10/2003 7:14:12 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Ok, who kidnapped the real Mr. Blix?!? -g- Extra inspectors not the issue, says Blix news.ft.com Hans Blix, chief United Nations weapons inspector, warned on Monday that an increase in the number of weapons inspectors in Baghdad would not address the fundamental question of whether Iraq was willing to offer full co-operation on disarmament. "The principal problem is not the number of inspectors but rather the active co-operation of the Iraqi side, as we have said many times," Mr Blix said in Athens, after his 11th-hour visit to Baghdad this weekend. As tension grows within UN corridors ahead of the inspectors' report to the Security Council on Friday, the comment appeared to echo claims in Washington that nothing short of a total turnround by Iraq could warrant a continuation of inspections. Despite further apparent concessions by Baghdad, it may also undermine French, Russian and German calls for a strengthened UN process. But until the inspectors' report is delivered, diplomats are loath to make any clear predictions of support for a possible second resolution authorising military action. [.....]

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