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Mohammed ElBaradei in Moscow This Morning

Aired January 16, 2003 - 05:33   ET

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


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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now to Iraq and the weapons inspections there. Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is in Moscow this morning. He's consulting Russian officials over the pace of the inspections. Russia opposes U.S. unilateral military action against Iraq.
Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty joins me live with the latest from Russia -- good morning.

JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.

Well, we had a chance to sit down with Mr. ElBaradei this morning and essentially what he said is they haven't found the smoking gun yet. He said that they're getting more information, specific information now, from various countries about the allegations that Iraq does have weapons of mass destruction. He also said that patience internationally is running out.

And I asked him specifically what is Iraq not doing that the U.N. wants it to do. And here's how he answered that question.

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MOHAMED ELBARADEI, DIRECTOR GENERAL, INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY: Iraq should understand that unless they completely have a different frame of mind, unless they become proactive, unless they take the initiative, that is not going to be sufficient confidence, you know, for the Security Council to say well, we are happy now, we are satisfied Iraq has disarmed.

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DOUGHERTY: ElBaradei and the inspectors will be making a major report on the 27th of January to the United Nations. I asked him what will be in that report. He said, of course, they're still working on it. But essentially what he feels is they will say we're making progress but we need more time and they will ask for that time. He had spoken about several months more. He said that they need more information from other countries about these allegations of weapons of mass destruction and also they need, as he put it, cooperation, proactive cooperation from Iraq on this.

And, Carol, also, Mr. Baradei, along with Hans Blix, who's the chief weapons inspector, will be leaving, in fact, for Baghdad. On Sunday and Monday they will be there. And that's the message he said that they will be delivering to the Iraqis.

COSTELLO: All right, Jill Dougherty reporting live for us from Moscow this morning.

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Aired January 16, 2003 - 05:33   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now to Iraq and the weapons inspections there. Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is in Moscow this morning. He's consulting Russian officials over the pace of the inspections. Russia opposes U.S. unilateral military action against Iraq.
Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty joins me live with the latest from Russia -- good morning.

JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.

Well, we had a chance to sit down with Mr. ElBaradei this morning and essentially what he said is they haven't found the smoking gun yet. He said that they're getting more information, specific information now, from various countries about the allegations that Iraq does have weapons of mass destruction. He also said that patience internationally is running out.

And I asked him specifically what is Iraq not doing that the U.N. wants it to do. And here's how he answered that question.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MOHAMED ELBARADEI, DIRECTOR GENERAL, INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY: Iraq should understand that unless they completely have a different frame of mind, unless they become proactive, unless they take the initiative, that is not going to be sufficient confidence, you know, for the Security Council to say well, we are happy now, we are satisfied Iraq has disarmed.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

DOUGHERTY: ElBaradei and the inspectors will be making a major report on the 27th of January to the United Nations. I asked him what will be in that report. He said, of course, they're still working on it. But essentially what he feels is they will say we're making progress but we need more time and they will ask for that time. He had spoken about several months more. He said that they need more information from other countries about these allegations of weapons of mass destruction and also they need, as he put it, cooperation, proactive cooperation from Iraq on this.

And, Carol, also, Mr. Baradei, along with Hans Blix, who's the chief weapons inspector, will be leaving, in fact, for Baghdad. On Sunday and Monday they will be there. And that's the message he said that they will be delivering to the Iraqis.

COSTELLO: All right, Jill Dougherty reporting live for us from Moscow this morning.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com