U.N. and Nuclear Officials Protest Shooting by Iraqis
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and U.N. officials met Sunday with Iraq’s foreign minister to protest a shooting incident involving nuclear inspectors.
The delegation left the hour-long meeting with Foreign Minister Ahmed Hussein Khudayer looking grim. Asked whether it was productive, Swedish nuclear expert Johan Molander would say only, “It was a long meeting.”
The talks were prompted by an incident Friday in which Iraqi soldiers fired automatic weapons over the heads of a 16-man U.N. inspection team at a facility 30 miles west of Baghdad.
The elimination of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction is one condition set by the U.N. Security Council for lifting an economic blockade imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait in August.
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