IRAQ: UNMOVIC SPOKESMAN IN IRAQ YASHUHIRO VEKI SAYS FIRST GROUP OF UN. WEAPONS INSPECTORS WILL ARRIVE ON NOVEMBER 25TH

Record ID: 647510

  • Title: IRAQ: UNMOVIC SPOKESMAN IN IRAQ YASHUHIRO VEKI SAYS FIRST GROUP OF UN. WEAPONS INSPECTORS WILL ARRIVE ON NOVEMBER 25TH
  • Date: 23rd November 2002
  • Summary: (W4) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (NOVEMBER 22, 2002)(REUTERS) 1. (SOUNDBITE)(English)UNMOVIC SPOKESMAN IN IRAQ YASHUHIRO VEKI SAYING "The first group of inspectors will arrive next Monday. Twelve from UNMOVIC (U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission), six from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), so we'll have a total of 18 inspectors arriving here on Monday. At the moment we have approximately 300 inspectors on the UNMOVIC roster and 33 inspectors on the IAEA roster." 0.40 2. MV REPORTERS AT PRESS CONFERENCE 0.44 3. (SOUNDBITE)(English) YASHUHIRO VEKI SAYING "At present we have 33 support staff, five more are expected to arrive tomorrow. More equipment is going to arrive here from Larnaca. We are still very busy cleaning up the UN inspection Centre, which will be on the top floor of the hotel.This is the floor previously used by UNSCOM (the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq). Since UNSCOM withdrew four years ago. The sub floor or top floor had not been used. All rooms are quite dirty, some rooms are even hard to describe, but we are very busy cleaning them up. We should be ready to receive the first group of inspectors next Monday." 1.52 4. MV MORE REPORTERS AT PRESS CONFERENCE 1.57 5. (SOUNDBITE)(English) YASHUHIRO VEKI SAYING "Previously monitored sites may be revisited for rebase landing to see what previously use equipment is still there functioning." 2.11 4. SLV U.N. CARS IN PARKING LOT; U.N. FLAG; SLV U.N. CARS PARKED (4 SHOTS) 2.29 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th December 2002 12:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA4KQ9EG95LF9J2VTX3J10YHWT1
  • Story Text: UNMOVIC spokesman in Iraq Yashuhiro Veki, has said the
    first group of U.N. inspectors will arrive in Bagdad on Monday
    November 25, 2002.

    The first group of U.N. inspectors will arrive in
    Baghdad next Monday (November 25), the United Nations
    Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC)
    spokesman in Iraq, Yashuhiro Veki said on Friday (November
    22, 2002).

    "The first group of inspectors will arrive next Monday, 12
    from UNMOVIC, six from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy
    Agency), so we'll have a total of 18 inspectors arriving here
    on Monday," Veki said. "At the moment we have approximately
    300 inspectors on the UNMOVIC roster and 33 inspectors on the
    IAEA roster."
    The head of UNMOVIC, Hans Blix, has said he expects to
    have 100 inspectors, drawn from more than 40 countries, in
    Iraq by the end of the year.

    Veki said there were, at present, 33 support staff in
    Baghdad. Five more were expected to arrive on Saturday
    (November 23). There have been no U.N.

    inspectors in Iraq in four years. Their laboratories and
    offices have been shut down.

    Veki said more equipment would be arriving from Larnaca.

    He said the UN Inspection Centre would occupy the premises
    previously used by the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM).

    "We should be ready to receive the first group of
    inspectors next Monday." he said.

    Veki said that previously monitored sites might be
    revisited for rebase landing to see what previously use
    equipment was still functioning.

    Starting on November 27, U.N. arms inspectors are to
    relaunch the search for weapons of mass destruction, having
    free access to all sites they think warrant inspection.

    Nothing will be regarded as off-limits, including mosques and
    Saddam's various palaces.

    While in Bagdad, inspectors will take soil, water and air
    samples and test them for possible nuclear elements.

    The first significant test will come on December 8, the
    deadline for Iraq to submit a full account of all its banned
    weapons programmes. So far, the Iraqis have agreed to meet
    this deadline.

    By January 27, 2003, the inspectors are due to give their
    first report to the U.N. Security Council.


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