Iraq Rejects UNMOVIC Arms Inspection Plan

Iraq is rejecting a United Nations' Security Council decision to approve a new arms inspection plan, saying that latest development is meanless. This comes from Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz two days after the Security Council unanimously approved an arms inspection plan for Iraq.

Aziz is repeating his country's rejection of the Security Council Resolution 1284, adopted last December, which would create a new arms inspection body. That'd be called the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspections Commission, for Iraq.

Aziz is also repeating a call for the total lifting of the decade-long U.N. sanctions imposed on Iraq, insisting that's a pre-condition for the return of U.N. arms inspectors. �

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