Baghdad, Nov 19: Iraqi officials have pledged to give "full cooperation and full transparency" to disarmament inspectors, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed Elbaradei said here today.
"All Iraqi officials have committed to provide us full
cooperation and full transparency," he told a press conference after a second and final day of talks in Baghdad.
"The Iraqis said they will do everything that is humanly
possible to cooperate with the two organizations," he said
referring to the IAEA and the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC).
UNMOVIC chairman Hans Blix, who arrived yesterday to relaunch arms inspections after a four-year break, said he had two days of "constructive discussions ... About how we can resume inspections ... On the basis of the resolutions of the Security Council.
"We have touched upon many practical arrangements and
been able to agree upon those," he said.
Blix and Elbaradei met with foreign minister Naji Sabr
late today followed by talks with the same Iraqi officials they saw in a first round the previous night.
Bureau Report
