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Article: U.N. Security Council Discusses Iraq
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- September 17, 2002
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ The U.N. Security Council met Tuesday to discuss
Iraq, a day after Baghdad offered to admit U.N. weapons inspectors
without conditions _ a concession made under the threat of U.S. military
action and pressure from Arab states.
The chief U.N. weapons inspector, Hans Blix, was to meet later Tuesday
with Iraqi officials to discuss "practical arrangements" for the return
of international weapons inspectors to Baghdad, U.N. spokesman Fred
Eckhard announced.
Eckhard said the meeting would take place at U.N. headquarters with
Saeed Hasan, the former Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, and
Gen. Hosam Amin, head of the ...