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Blix to Go Before Security Council

Aired December 19, 2002 - 10:04   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Now, for the latest on all these developments, we begin with senior U.S. -- sorry, U.N. correspondent, Richard Roth, who is in the U.S. at the U.N. -- good morning, Richard.
RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT: Good morning. It can get tricky in this ongoing Iraq crisis, Leon.

Basically, Hans Blix, the chief U.N. weapons inspector, preparing in 30 minutes to go before the Security Council. His first briefing since his inspection teams got on the ground there in late November. Blix entered the briefing and also entered the building without comment on camera.

Off camera, he told Reuters that he is going to tell the council that gaps remain in Iraq's 12,000 page declaration. There's not much information there about the weapons. There is a lot on non-arms- related activity, he says, and Blix says he is going to say that cooperation between Iraq and the inspectors has been good, there has been prompt access to the sites.

Various diplomats and officials have been felling CNN in the last few days that Blix and Mohammed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency are going to say there are a lot of unanswered questions asked a short time ago about that, ElBaradei said it's even a little bit more complicated than that -- Leon.

HARRIS: ... very much, Richard. Richard Roth at the U.N. this morning.

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Aired December 19, 2002 - 10:04   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Now, for the latest on all these developments, we begin with senior U.S. -- sorry, U.N. correspondent, Richard Roth, who is in the U.S. at the U.N. -- good morning, Richard.
RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT: Good morning. It can get tricky in this ongoing Iraq crisis, Leon.

Basically, Hans Blix, the chief U.N. weapons inspector, preparing in 30 minutes to go before the Security Council. His first briefing since his inspection teams got on the ground there in late November. Blix entered the briefing and also entered the building without comment on camera.

Off camera, he told Reuters that he is going to tell the council that gaps remain in Iraq's 12,000 page declaration. There's not much information there about the weapons. There is a lot on non-arms- related activity, he says, and Blix says he is going to say that cooperation between Iraq and the inspectors has been good, there has been prompt access to the sites.

Various diplomats and officials have been felling CNN in the last few days that Blix and Mohammed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency are going to say there are a lot of unanswered questions asked a short time ago about that, ElBaradei said it's even a little bit more complicated than that -- Leon.

HARRIS: ... very much, Richard. Richard Roth at the U.N. this morning.

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