Iraq Fails to Meet UN Deadline- * IRAQ COMPLAINS TO UN OF U.S. THREATS
December 2, 1998 - 0:0
TEHRAN Iraq failed to meet a UN deadline on Monday to surrender a key document detailing Iraqi chemical weapons munitions, UN officials said. Top UN weapons inspector Richard Butler, in a letter released here Monday but dated on Friday, asked Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz to hand over the document to UN experts in Baghdad by 30 November. Butler wrote to Aziz following Iraq's November 14 decision to resume cooperation with the weapons inspectors, requesting a series of documents and records pertaining to Iraqi arms of mass destruction.
He notably called for a document, found by a team of weapons inspectors in July in an Air Force headquarters safe, which Iraq has refused to hand over to the UN experts. The document gives details of the bombs filled with chemical weapons and used during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. The inspectors believe that Iraq used fewer chemical munitions than previously admitted during the war meaning that others remain unaccounted for.
Iraq complained Monday in a message to UN Security Council President Peter Burleigh that senior U.S. officials had made dangerous threats against Iraq, the official Iraqi news agency INA said. In his letter, Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed said Al-Sahhaf warns against dangerous threats by senior U.S. officials against Iraq, its security and its integrity, the agency said. These threats are a flagrant violation of the UN Charter and international legal principles, the Iraqi minister wrote in the missive carried by INA.
He notably called for a document, found by a team of weapons inspectors in July in an Air Force headquarters safe, which Iraq has refused to hand over to the UN experts. The document gives details of the bombs filled with chemical weapons and used during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. The inspectors believe that Iraq used fewer chemical munitions than previously admitted during the war meaning that others remain unaccounted for.
Iraq complained Monday in a message to UN Security Council President Peter Burleigh that senior U.S. officials had made dangerous threats against Iraq, the official Iraqi news agency INA said. In his letter, Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed said Al-Sahhaf warns against dangerous threats by senior U.S. officials against Iraq, its security and its integrity, the agency said. These threats are a flagrant violation of the UN Charter and international legal principles, the Iraqi minister wrote in the missive carried by INA.