Brookings Experts to Hold Conference Call with Reporters on Blix Report to UN Security Council

2/13/2003

From: Colin Johnson of the Brookings Institution, 202-797-6310

News Advisory:

WHEN: Friday, Feb. 14, 3:00 p.m. ET

TO ACCESS THE CONFERENCE CALL: 1-800-450-0786

CONTACT: Colin Johnson, Brookings Chief Media Relations Officer, 202-797-6310

PARTICIPANTS: -- IVO H. DAALDER, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and The Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair, Brookings

-- KENNETH M. POLLACK, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings

-- Media may access the conference call by dialing 1-800-450-0786 and asking for "Analysis of Hans Blix Report." For those unable to participate live, the call will be replayed in its entirety until Saturday night at midnight by dialing 1-800-475-6701 and entering 675546.

Chief UN weapons inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei will deliver their latest reports to the UN Security Council Friday. They are expected to elaborate on the Blix team's conclusion that a ballistic missile program in Iraq violates UN-set missile range limits.

Brookings scholars Ivo Daalder and Kenneth Pollack will hold a conference call with reporters after the inspectors' presentation to assess the reports and whether they could change the minds of the governments who favor continued inspections over military action-China, France, Germany, and Russia.