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Iraq has rejected a new United Nations resolution that would return arms inspectors after a hiatus of more than a year, striking a blow to attempts to resume the search for Baghdad's alleged weapons...

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The Iraqi deputy prime minister has accused the U-N chief weapons inspector of seeking to undermine a Security Council review of Iraqi compliance with U-N resoluti
ons....

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A defiant Iraq is refusing to back down from its decision to ban United Nations weapons inspectors from working in the country, even if military action is...

United Nations chief Kofi Annan met Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz in Baghdad on Friday (20/02) as the UN secretary general began his last ditch attempt to find a solution to the standoff between Iraq and the United...

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The United Nations' chief weapons inspector Richard Butler is winding up his two day visit to Iraq - and admitted on Wednesday he's been unable to persuade Baghdad to open its...

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The UN chief weapons inspector has said a new spirit of co-operation between Iraq and the United Nations could soon lead to a reduction in Iraq's stockpiles of chemical and biological...

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U-N Secretary General Kofi Annan began talks on Saturday with Iraqi officials in an effort to resolve the crisis over weapons inspector
s.
Annan flew into Baghdad on Friday and on Saturday...

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Jordan's Prime Minister Ali Abu-Ragheb flew to Iraq on Wednesday, marking the first such visit by an Arab leader since sanctions were imp
osed.
It is another sign of the growing...

1. Wide of French E.U. delegation to Iraq and foreign journalists watching Powell's briefing to U.N. Security Council on television in Information Ministry press centre

2. Various of people watc
hing
3....

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Saddam Hussein's palaces are not as large as the United States is clai
ming.
Staffan de Mistura, leading the team of cartographers mapping the sensitive sites at the centre...

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The United States on Saturday said it hoped that the U-N secretary-general's last-ditch diplomatic mission to Iraq would suc
ceed.
But National Security Adviser Sandy Berger warned that U-S...

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President Clinton says he will keep up the pressure on Iraq as weapons inspectors prepare to return to Baghdad and resume their work on Fr
iday.
Saddam Hussein reversed his ban on...

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Pentagon officials in Washington say Iraq's threats against Turkey, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are being taken serio
usly.
But a spokesman said there is little chance Iraq's...

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1. Various of meeting with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein - on Hussein's right is Iraq's Defence Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmed and on the left is Hussein's son...

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The United Nations Security Council met in New York, on Wednesday, to decide the terms of a visit to Baghdad by U-N Secretary General Kofi A
nnan.
However Annan would not be drawn on...

UN disarmament chief Richard Butler arrived in Baghdad on Monday (19/1) in a bid to resolve the escalating crisis over weapons inspections.

Butler, the chairman of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM)...

1. Various of Rumsfeld in airport building

2. Car carrying US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrives, he gets out, walks to steps of plane, greets offi
cials
3. Rumsfeld walking up steps of plane, pull out...

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A top U-S State Department official says time is running out for the Middle East peace pro
cess.
Martin Indyk - U-S Assistant Secretary For Near Eastern Affairs and former Ambassador to Israel ...

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The United Nations' chief weapons inspector has rejected a comment by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that the U-N weapons inspection team wind up its work...

Baghdad, Iraq - November 6 1999

1. London bus heading on motorway into Bag
hdad
2. British Member of Parliament, George Gallow
ay, in car
3. People on back of bus
with Iraqi...

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Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz arrived in Moscow Tuesday for talks on cooperation in oil production - should U-N sanctions against Iraq be li
fted.
On the agenda is the development on...

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Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein reversed his ban on American weapons inspectors in his country on Thursday, ending his defiance of United Nations demands and averting...

As the United Nations Security Council debated the Iraqi crisis on Tuesday (11/11), Baghdad repeated its threat to shoot down US reconnaissance flights in its airspace. Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Sa'id told a press...

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Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz has again denounced what he calls the continuing aggression against Iraq by the U-S and Bri
tain.
His words came as the U-S military jets bombed two Iraqi...