JORDAN: UNITED NATIONS (U.N.) OFFICIAL IN CHARGE OF ELIMINATING IRAQ'S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, ROLF EKEUS, COMMENTS ON MEETING WITH IRAQI DEFECTOR LIEUTENANT- GENERAL HUSSEIN KAMEL HASSAN

Record ID: 337718

  • Title: JORDAN: UNITED NATIONS (U.N.) OFFICIAL IN CHARGE OF ELIMINATING IRAQ'S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, ROLF EKEUS, COMMENTS ON MEETING WITH IRAQI DEFECTOR LIEUTENANT- GENERAL HUSSEIN KAMEL HASSAN
  • Date: 23rd August 1995
  • Summary: AMMAN, JORDAN (AUGUST 23, 1995)(RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV UNITED NATIONS (U.N.) OFFICIAL IN CHARGE OF ELIMINATING IRAQ'S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, ROLF EKEUS, SPEAKING ON THE MEETING WITH IRAQI DEFECTOR LIEUTENANT- GENERAL HUSSEIN KAMEL HASSAN IN BAGHDAD 1.56 2. SLV NEWS CONFERENCE 2.00 SEQ.1: TRANSCRIPT; EKEUS: "IT IS CLEAR THAT I HAD A MEETING WITH GENERAL HUSSEIN KAMEL HASSAN WHO AS YOU KNOW WAS IN CHARGE OF ALL PROGRAMMES. THE IAEA (INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY) WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM ADDRESS ALL PROHIBITED PROGRAMMES UNDER THEIR AUTHORITY. SO I HAVE TO EMPHASISE IN OUR CONTEXT WITH GENERAL HUSSEIN KAMEL HASSAN NO ISSUES RELEVANT TO IRAQ'S LEGITIMATE SECURITY INTERESTS OR SECURITY CONCERNS INCLUDING ITS COMMERCIAL ARMAMENTS WERE DEALT WITH BETWEEN THE U.N AND GENERAL HUSSEIN KAMEL HASSAN. WE HAD TALKS IN ADDRESSING THE ISSUES OF COMMON INTEREST AND COMMON CONCERN. WITHIN THIS CONTEXT, SEVERAL DIFFERENT QUESTIONS WERE DEALT WITH. FURTHER MEETINGS AT A LATER STAGE ARE ENVISAGED. GENERAL KAMEL WANTED ME TO STRESS THAT IRAQ MUST GET RID OF ITS WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRUCTION, SO IRAQ CAN ONCE AGAIN BECOME PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND THUS BREAK ITS ISOLATION." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 7th September 1995 13:00
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  • Location: AMMAN, JORDAN
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  • Country: Jordan
  • Reuters ID: LVA7JN9KH9NW03SXLIYTG11GZRD9
  • Story Text: The United Nations (U.N.) official in charge of eliminating Iraq's weapons of mass destruction said on Wednesday (August 23) Iraq's new policy of cooperation and releasing information had advanced the date for ending the ban on Iraqi oil sales.

    Rolf Ekeus said Iraq pledged it was now committed to honouring the 1991 Gulf War ceasefire resolutions and if that happened the U.N. Security Council would have to lift economic sanctions.

    "The Iraqi leadership declared to me that its policy from now on is 100 per cent implementation of the ceasefire arrangements," Ekeus told reporters.

    "So with that the Security Council, all members without exception, should have no choice," Ekeus said in answer to a question on whether the United States would block a lifting of sanctions regardless of Iraqi actions.

    Ekeus spoke a day after he met Iraqi defector Lieutenant- General Hussein Kamel Hassan, the mastermind of Iraq's banned military programmes, to cross-check information the United Nations had received in the past week in Baghdad.

    He revealed few details of their discussion but said contacts with both Hussein Kamel and the Iraqi government would continue in an effort to clear remaining questions about Iraqi military programmes as quickly as possible.

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