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To: NickSE who wrote (73201)	2/11/2003 11:56:16 PM
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Iraq rules out allowing UN peacekeepers on its soil news.nasdaq.com DUBAI (AFX) - Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri ruled out the deployment on Iraqi soil of any UN peacekeepers, as was foreseen in a joint proposal by France and Germany to settle the weapons inspections standoff with the US. "We have not been informed of the details of this proposal, but no Iraqi will accept the deployment of international forces," Sabri told the Saudi-owned Al-Hayat newspaper. "We don't doubt the desire of certain international parties to face up to the logic of war and aggression but we think that the presentation of such ideas in fact serves the (US) logic of war," he told the London-based daily. Under the Franco-German plan, the number of inspectors could be tripled to 300, at least 1,000 armed UN peacekeepers be deployed in Iraq and all Iraqi aviation grounded, according to German magazine Der Spiegel, which revealed the initiative over the weekend.