Security Council Convenes to Discuss Iraq Issue

United Nations inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed El-Baradei briefed the Security Council on Iraqi cooperation this morning.
The Council has before it two different approaches, a draft resolution co-sponsored by Spain, the United Kingdom and United States, that would declare that Iraq "has failed to take the final opportunity afforded to it in resolution 1441" to disarm, and a memorandum from France, Germany and the Russian Federation calling for bulked up and continued inspections.
Hans Blix (top right), Executive Chairman of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), and Mohamed ElBaradei (Egypt) (to the left of Mr. Blix), Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), at today's meeting.