PRESS STATEMENT ON IRAQ BY PRESIDENT OF SECURITY COUNCIL
Following is today’s press statement on Iraq by Jeremy Greenstock (United Kingdom), President of the Security Council:
In informal consultations on Iraq, we heard a briefing from the Chef de Cabinet Iqbal Riza on behalf of the Secretary-General on the Secretary-General’s talks with the Foreign Minister of Iraq and his team in Vienna on 4�and 5 July.� The members of the Council expressed deep gratitude to the Secretary-General and his team for persevering with these efforts with the Iraqi team on implementation of the resolutions.� The Chef de Cabinet reported some Iraqi movement towards complying with obligations under the resolutions on Kuwaiti property and archives and on agreement on the setting up of a mechanism for that.� Council members expressed the hope that this would lead to concrete Iraqi action on those issues.� Otherwise they repeated the need for Iraq, immediately, to fulfil all requirements under the resolutions, including on Kuwaiti missing persons and on the unconditional return of weapons inspectors.
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