Weapons inspectors pore over Iraq declaration

Weapons inspectors in New York and Vienna began combing through Iraq’s massive dossier detailing its chemical, biological and nuclear programmes today, to determine whether Baghdad is complying with United Nations Security Council resolutions.

Copies of the 12,000-page declaration, which left Baghdad on Saturday, arrived in battered, black suitcases and were met at UN headquarters in New York at 1.40am today, British time, by chief weapons inspector Hans Blix, who said his staff ”will immediately take a look” at the material.