Q: The list of experts that was provided by Iraq. I am wondering, could you be more specific about why you think this list is inadequate? Have you, or are you going to back to Iraq with a direct petition for more information, and have you asked the Council for help to improve this [inaudible]
HB: Oh, I think we can ask the questions all by ourselves. And we intend to do so.
ElB: We are going there on the 19th and 20th of this month, and we have a list of questions we need to press on the Iraqis, and the list of scientists is clearly one of these - we need to impress on the Iraqis that we need a comprehensive list of scientists.
HB: The list even failed to comprise a number of names that we have from the UNSCOM archives and which should have been there. So it was not an adequate list and we will bring it up in our talks in Baghdad.
Q: You said that you need proactive support from Iraq, yet you have also said that has left a lot of important questions unanswered, about chemical and biological weapons. Now, how much time, for example, do you think is reasonable to give Iraq to comply with these [inaudible] requests for information, and do you consider perhaps this trip to Baghdad next week, as maybe a last-ditch effort to get these answers? Or do you expect to have an open slate; maybe give them a month or two?
HB: Oh, I think we can ask the questions all by ourselves. And we intend to do so.
ElB: We are going there on the 19th and 20th of this month, and we have a list of questions we need to press on the Iraqis, and the list of scientists is clearly one of these - we need to impress on the Iraqis that we need a comprehensive list of scientists.
HB: The list even failed to comprise a number of names that we have from the UNSCOM archives and which should have been there. So it was not an adequate list and we will bring it up in our talks in Baghdad.
Q: You said that you need proactive support from Iraq, yet you have also said that has left a lot of important questions unanswered, about chemical and biological weapons. Now, how much time, for example, do you think is reasonable to give Iraq to comply with these [inaudible] requests for information, and do you consider perhaps this trip to Baghdad next week, as maybe a last-ditch effort to get these answers? Or do you expect to have an open slate; maybe give them a month or two?