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To: Bazmataz who wrote (27545)	8/11/1998 7:06:00 PM
From: Captain James T. Kirk	Respond to of 95453

U.N. envoy going to Baghdad to pressure Iraq By Hassan Hafidh BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - The U.N. special envoy to Iraq will return to Baghdad Thursday to try to resolve a standoff between the Iraqi government and U.N. weapons inspectors, a U.N. official said Tuesday. Prakash Shah, special envoy of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Iraq is expected to meet with Iraqi officials to discuss an Iraqi decision to halt cooperation with the U.N. Special Commission (UNSCOM) in charge of Iraq's disarmament. "The special envoy, Prakash Shah, is returning back to Iraq Thursday," the unidentified official said. Annan said Monday that Shah would go back to Iraq "with a very firm message urging the Iraqis to change their position." The 58-year-old Indian diplomat was appointed by Annan in March to supervise an agreement the U.N. chief clinched with Iraq following a crisis over inspection of so-called Iraqi presidential sites. Last week Iraq announced that it was suspending cooperation with UNSCOM unless it was radically restructured, a move the Security Council called "totally unacceptable." UNSCOM halted arms inspections of new sites in Iraq on Sunday, but U.N. experts will continue to monitor sites already identified by inspectors looking for evidence of prohibited weapons. The current standoff began when talks between UNSCOM's chairman Richard Butler and Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz broke down last week. Butler refused to comply with a demand by Aziz to declare that all Iraq's weapons of mass destruction had been accounted for. This would open the way for the Security Council to end tough sanctions on Iraq since its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. But Butler said he still lacked the evidence to say Iraq had fully complied with U.N. Gulf War resolutions calling for the scrapping of its nuclear, chemical, biological and ballistic missile systems. Butler said Sunday that Iraq was concerned about what U.N. arms teams might find during their inspections. A spokesman for the Iraqi Culture and Information Ministry Tuesday accused Butler of pursuing a hostile American policy against Iraq and spying for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "He is commiting the most dirty terrorist acts when he is implementing a conspiracay being hatched by America which is responsible for a genocide against the Iraqi people," the spokesman said. "He has proved his connection with the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. State Department," he said.