UN inspectors to return to Iraq by mid October
Iraq, Politics, 9/21/2002

As the UN chief inspector Hans Blix announced before the UN Security Council 15 members that he will send the first group of experts to Iraq in mid October, the US Secretary of State Colin Powell stressed that the US will not permit any Iraqi proposal or a draft law simply because Iraq promised to permit the unconditional return of UN inspectors to Iraq.

Powell said that the US Congress have to pass very quickly a resolution submitted by the US President George Bush to the US Congress in which he requested permission to use all means, including the use of power, in order to force Iraq dismantle its weapons.

"There are quite a few such things that need to be settled. Since we want to have successful inspections and we want to avoid any clashes, differences, and conflict with Iraq, we think it would be best to talk to them about what our rights are, explain to them so they know what they can expect," he said. "We are not uncertain about what the resolutions say ... but we do need to explain. "We are the servants of the Security Council and we are basingourselves on Resolution 1284 and preceding resolutions beginning in 1991 with Resolution 687, etc. We know all this. We are not in doubt about what needs to be done," Blix had said.

Meantime, the US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that the air force alone can not eliminate the Iraqi secret programs, and that land forces should be used in any attack to achieve this objective.

Meantime, the White House announced on Friday that President Bush will use a special policy to convince Russia to withdraw its objection concerning the adoption of a new and strong UN resolution against Iraq.

Meantime, a British parliamentary spokesman stressed that scores of the ruling British Labor party parliamentarians are drawing plans to stand against the policy set by the British prime minister Tony Blair which supports war so as to be debated during the special session which will be held by the House of Commons next Tuesday dedicated to discuss the Iraqi issue.

The spokesman indicated that the parliamentarians will oppose any attempt to postpone voting on the issue of war against Iraq and Britain's participation in it in the light of the news which indicate that Blair is trying to avoid having a parliamentary vote on Britain's participation in a military act against Iraq.

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