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Russia gets a copy of Iraq arms dossier
Moscow, Dec 11: Russia today received a copy of the massive Iraq dossier from the US and assured that the weapons inspectors would be assisted by five permanent members experts to prevent the leakage of sensitive information on Baghdad`s Weapons of Mass Destruction programmes.
Moscow, Dec 11: Russia today received a copy of the massive Iraq dossier from the US and assured that the weapons inspectors would be assisted by five permanent members experts to prevent the leakage of sensitive information on Baghdad's Weapons of Mass Destruction programmes.
"Special procedures have been evolved for the analysis of information provided by Baghdad under UN Security Council Resolution 1441," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov said, confirming the receipt of its copy of the Iraq dossier.
"These procedures provide for preliminary analysis of the Iraqi document to identify its parts, which could pose a risk of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction," Fedotov was quoted as saying by the Itar-Tass.
"What is most essential is that the Iraqi Declaration will be studied by the UN Monitoring and Verification Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)," he said.
Fedotov, Russian foreign ministry's pointman on west Asia, said in identifying sensitive parts of the 12,000-page Iraq dossier UNMOVIC and IAEA experts would be assisted by specialists from the five permanent members (P-5) of the UNSC, which also are the members of official nuclear club.
Along with the US and Russia all the P-5 nations including the UK, China and France have also received their copies of the dossier, he said.
Fedotov said only after scrutiny by P-5 experts the heads of UNMOVIC and IAEA would take a final decision, which parts of Iraq dossier would remain secret and which would be made public.
Non-permanent members of the UNSC will get an excised version of the text. Bureau Report
"These procedures provide for preliminary analysis of the Iraqi document to identify its parts, which could pose a risk of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction," Fedotov was quoted as saying by the Itar-Tass.
"What is most essential is that the Iraqi Declaration will be studied by the UN Monitoring and Verification Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)," he said.
Fedotov, Russian foreign ministry's pointman on west Asia, said in identifying sensitive parts of the 12,000-page Iraq dossier UNMOVIC and IAEA experts would be assisted by specialists from the five permanent members (P-5) of the UNSC, which also are the members of official nuclear club.
Along with the US and Russia all the P-5 nations including the UK, China and France have also received their copies of the dossier, he said.
Fedotov said only after scrutiny by P-5 experts the heads of UNMOVIC and IAEA would take a final decision, which parts of Iraq dossier would remain secret and which would be made public.
Non-permanent members of the UNSC will get an excised version of the text. Bureau Report