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...said that she wanted to yell back but feared her behavior would be “so unladylike, so un-Asian...
...There is a terrible kind of hypocrisy going on here—both Israel and Iraq have consistently defied UN resolutions, yet we have declared war on Iraq and barely discussed Israel,” he said. “If we are going to be moral people, we need to apply the same standards to everyone...
Hans Blix arrives in Baghdad Monday on a mission to test Iraq's compliance with a UN Security Council ultimatum on disarmament. As head of the UNMOVIC inspection team, Blix will supervise the new inspection program. And it will be up to him to report any Iraqi violations to the UN Security Council - an action that would likely spark a U.S. invasion. But Blix rejects any idea that the choice between war and peace is in his hands, preferring to see himself simply as a polite but firm detective out to do nothing more (or less) than establish the facts...
...TIME: UNMOVIC relies on UN member states for intelligence. But cooperation with intelligence agencies hostile to Iraq bedeviled the previous inspection regime, UNSCOM. Will the relationship with intelligence agencies be handled differently this time around...
...answer was given by the Security Council: You must be a UN organ; you report to this Council, the whole Council, not individual members. Build up your organization as a UN organization. Recruit people on a broad geographical basis. Competence comes first, but a broad geographical recruitment comes second. This is what we have done...