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To: J.T. who wrote (15830)	1/18/2003 5:47:29 PM
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Or is it the 27th the clock begins ticking? sg.news.yahoo.com Iraq "failing" to comply with UN resolution: Powell Iraq is failing to comply with the UN Security Council resolution calling for its disarmament and is deceiving UN arms inspectors, US Secretary of State Colin Powell charged in an interview with a German newspaper. In the interview, to be published in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung paper on Saturday, Powell also stressed the importance of a report on the arms issue to be given to the Security Council on January 27, said that if the UN did not do what was required to disarm Iraq after that date, the United States reserved the right to do so. "Based on what we have seen so far, Iraq is failing to meet the mandate of 1441," Powell told the paper, referring to Security Council Resolution 1441, which calls for Iraq to be disarmed and sets up the current tough system of inspections. "Iraq has failed to cooperate. It has failed to put forward a believable declaration, as required. It is not making people available. It is not making documents available. It is deceiving the inspectors. It is trying to make it harder for the inspectors to do their work," Powell said, according to an official transcript of the interview released in Washington. "If the United States feels strongly that Iraq still has weapons of mass destruction and (is) trying to develop new ones, the United States reserves the right and believes there is sufficient authority within international law, based on many acts of noncompliance, many material breaches in the past and continuing material breaches into the present, that would give us a basis for undertaking whatever might be required to disarm Iraq," Powell said. "What the United States will be looking for on the 27th of January and what every member of the Security Council should be looking for on the 27th of January is a simple -- is a simple proposition: Is Iraq cooperating, as was intended under 1441? And is it cooperating in a way that would satisfy the demands of the international community for Iraq to disarm? And that's a judgment that the Council will have to make," the US official said. "We cannot get ourselves into a situation where the Council just, in the presence of this kind of non-cooperation, just wants to not do anything and let it continue forever," he added. The interview was given to a group of reporters from countries who have just joined the UN Security Council. Germany, which became a non-permanent member for two years on January 1, is to take over the chair of the 15-country Council from France on February 1. It is also the major western country whose government has so far been most strongly opposed to any war on Iraq, saying it will not take part even if the conflict is authorized by the United Nations. Powell also said the United States had "absolutely no regrets" at having gone to the United Nations to try and seek agreement for action against Iraq. He added that US President had not yet decided whether to go to war. "The President has not made a decision for war. The President has said he would like to see this resolved peaceably," he told the paper. "But if it isn't resolved peacefully -- peacefully -- then, he believes the international community has an obligation to disarm Iraq forcefully." "And he believes if the international community isn't willing to do it, then the United States, with like-minded nations, may have that obligation so that the world does not face an Iraq with weapons of mass destruction." The head of the UN arms inspectorate, Hans Blix is due to make his report to the Security Council on January 27 on the first two months of weapons inspections in Iraq. Earlier on Friday, Bush's spokesman, Ari Fleischer, said it was "becoming increasingly clear" that Saddam had not disarmed. He added that 11 empty chemical warheads found by UN inspectors in Iraq on Thursday did not appear on the list of weapons Iraq had submitted to the United Nations. Blix, meanwhile, said he was seeking "more explanations" from Baghdad about the empty warheads, which were found in an arms depot. He said the munitions would be destroyed after undergoing tests, and added that he was not yet sure whether they had featured in Iraq's weapons declaration to the UN last month. The Iraqi statement was filed as part of UN resolution 1441 which gave Iraq one month to make a complete disclosure of its weapons of mass destruction -- or face "serious consequences".