Iraq: commissioners for UN weapons inspection body to meet next week
Iraq-Regional, Politics, 11/24/2001

Experts providing guidance to the United Nations body set up to verify the dismantling of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction will meet next week in New York, a United Nations spokesman announced Friday.

The College of Commissioners of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) will meet on 26 and 27 November at UN Headquarters in New York, according to spokesman Fred Eckhard. UNMOVIC Executive Chairman Hans Blix will chair the session.

The Security Council set up the expert group to review the implementation of Council resolutions and to provide professional advice and guidance on significant policy decisions to UNMOVIC's Executive Chairman.

According to Mr. Eckhard, two new Commissioners - John S. Wolf of the United States and Li Junhua of China - are slated to attend the session for the first time. They are replacing others who had resigned.

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