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To: NickSE who wrote (74359)	2/15/2003 9:30:42 PM
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Aziz: Destroying missiles would be 'unacceptable' Iraqi envoy dismisses idea of peacekeeping force cnn.com ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz said in an interview with CNN on Saturday that it would be "unacceptable" for U.N. weapons inspectors to destroy Iraqi missiles found to violate U.N. limits and dismissed the idea of sending U.N. peacekeepers to Iraq. A team of independent experts, commissioned by Hans Blix, chief of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), determined that during testing, Iraq's Al Samoud 2 missiles traveled more than 93 miles (about 150 kilometers), the range limit allowed by previous U.N. resolutions restricting Iraq's weapons capability. Aziz said the missiles exceeded the range by less than six miles and only because they lacked guidance systems. He said they do not pose a threat that would warrant their destruction. "They should not be destroyed because they are practically within the range we are allowed to have," he said. "It would be quite unfair and unacceptable by any scientific and security standards ... Destruction should be based on a reason, a reason linked with questions of security and peace." While on a trip to Rome to meet with Pope John Paul II, Aziz also dismissed a reported plan to send U.N. peacekeepers to Iraq. "Iraq is a sovereign state. It has provided all of the security needed to re-inspect us, and we don't need United Nations troops to interfere or to be in our country," he said. [....]

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