Security Council Insists Iraq Comply

With Iraq challenging the U.N. on arms inspections, the Security Council demanded that Baghdad allow weapons teams unconditional access to all suspected arms sites. The 15-member council, in a policy statement read at a formal meeting, said failure by Iraq to allow the U.N. Special Commission, in charge of scrapping Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, into any site was “unacceptable and a clear violation of the relevant resolutions.” At the insistence of Russia, the U.S.-drafted statement no longer condemned Iraq for its actions.