DATE=11/21/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-241978
TITLE=CLINTON / IRAQ (S)
BYLINE=DEBORAH TATE
DATELINE=SEOUL
CONTENT=
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INTRO:  PRESIDENT CLINTON IS REACTING CAUTIOUSLY TO IRAQI 
OBJECTIONS TO TURN OVER DOCUMENTS TO UNITED NATIONS WEAPONS 
INSPECTORS.  V-O-A'S DEBORAH  TATE REPORTS FROM SEOUL, SOUTH 
KOREA, WHERE THE PRESIDENT IS TRAVELING.                         
 

TEXT:  ONE WEEK AFTER IRAQ AGREED TO UNCONDITIONALLY COOPERATE 
WITH U-N WEAPONS INSPECTORS -- NARROWLY AVERTING U-S MILITARY 
ACTION, IRAQ IS RAISING OBJECTIONS TO A REQUEST BY CHIEF ARMS 
INSPECTOR RICHARD BUTLER TO HAND OVER DOCUMENTS.

AT A JOINT NEWS CONFERENCE WITH SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT KIM DAE 
JUNG, MR. CLINTON SAID IT IS IMPORTANT NOT TO IMMEDIATELY 
OVERREACT TO THE DEVELOPMENT, BUT HE ADDED HE HOPES THE IRAQIS 
WILL COMPLY, AS THEY HAVE PLEDGED TO DO.                     

                        // CLINTON ACTUALITY //  

         IF THEY WANT THE SANCTIONS LIFTED BECAUSE THEY HAVE 
         COMPLIED WITH ALL  THE U-N RESOLUTIONS ON WEAPONS, THEY 
         HAVE TO GIVE THE INFORMATION ON  THE DOCUMENTS.  

                           // END ACT //      

THE UNITED NATIONS IMPOSED SANCTIONS ON BAGHDAD IN 1990, AFTER 
IRAQ INVADED KUWAIT.                                             
                   

U-S OFFICIALS SAY THE UNITED STATES REMAINS POISED TO STRIKE IRAQ
IF IT FAILS TO COOPERATE WITH WEAPONS INSPECTORS.  (SIGNED)

NEB/DAT/PLM

21-Nov-98 3:16 AM EST (0816 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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