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Iraq, UN Agree on Unfettered Access, Stop Short of US Demands

STAFF | United Nations | October 1, 2002

"UNMOVIC Executive Chairman Hans Blix said [an] agreement had been reached on practical arrangements for inspections, with unconditional and unrestricted access to Iraqi sites."

The Government of Iraq and officials of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began a second day of talks in Vienna, which concluded in the late afternoon. 

UNMOVIC Executive Chairman Hans Blix said afterward that agreement had been reached on practical arrangements for inspections, with unconditional and unrestricted access to Iraqi sites. 

Asked about access to Iraqi Presidential sites, he said those had not been discussed, and access was governed under a 1988 Memorandum of Understanding between Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Government of Iraq, which was endorsed in Security Council Resolution 1154 (1998).

Blix said he would brief the Security Council on Thursday about the talks.

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