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 | | However, while Annan has said it is up to the council to decide what he should do, sources familiar with his thinking say he is very reluctant to go because he believes that this time there is no negotiating room to strike a deal with the Iraqis. |
 | | Members demanded that the Iraqi leadership must rescind immediately and unconditionally today's decision, as well as the decision of August 5, to limit cooperation with UNSCOM and the IAEA, as previously demanded by the Council in UNSCR 1194, and must resume immediate, complete and unconditional cooperation with the Special Commission and the IAEA. |
 | | The threat of Iraqi chemical and biological weapons is too grave to treat exclusively as a diplomatic matter, as the White House now seems belatedly to recognize. |
| www.fas.org /news/iraq/1998/11/03/981103-in.htm (3858 words) |
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