Blix: Iraq has not accepted demand to disarm

Iraq has not genuinely accepted a UN resolution demanding that it disarm and while Baghdad is co-operating on access, it needs to do more on substance, chief weapons inspector Hans Blix told the Security Council today.

“Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance, not even today, of the disarmament that was demanded of it,” Blix said at the beginning of a crucial assessment on 60 days of weapons inspections.