Iraq 'ready to cooperate' with UN

Iraq today said it was ready to discuss a return of UN weapons inspectors, but only in a broader context of ending sanctions and restoring Iraqi sovereignty over the whole country.

"If you want to find a solution, you have to find a solution for all these matters, not only pick up one certain aspect of it,” Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz said after meeting UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Johannesburg. “We are ready to find such a solution.”