19 December – Continuing an intensified pace of work, United Nations inspectors in Iraq today continued to probe sites suspected of being involved in the country's efforts to procure long-range missiles as well as chemical, biological and nuclear arms.
A team from the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) went to the Ibn Firnas State Company, which is owned by the Military Industrialization Corporation and conducts work on aircraft and remotely piloted vehicles for the armed forces. Another set of missile experts inspected the site of the Al-Harith Missile Maintenance Workshop, which services various missile systems.
In addition, an UNMOVIC multidisciplinary team inspected a guesthouse in the Al Rashidiya region. "The team entered the site, following a 20-minute discussion on procedural matters at the gate," U.N. spokesman Hiro Ueki said in Baghdad.
"The team leader, accompanied by an UNMOVIC interpreter and an Iraqi official, entered two buildings at the site and completed the inspection."
A team from the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) went to the Ibn Firnas State Company, which is owned by the Military Industrialization Corporation and conducts work on aircraft and remotely piloted vehicles for the armed forces. Another set of missile experts inspected the site of the Al-Harith Missile Maintenance Workshop, which services various missile systems.
In addition, an UNMOVIC multidisciplinary team inspected a guesthouse in the Al Rashidiya region. "The team entered the site, following a 20-minute discussion on procedural matters at the gate," U.N. spokesman Hiro Ueki said in Baghdad.
"The team leader, accompanied by an UNMOVIC interpreter and an Iraqi official, entered two buildings at the site and completed the inspection."