IVANOV FAILS TO PERSUADE AZIZ OVER UN INSPECTORS. Iraqi
Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz left Moscow on 30 November
saying that Baghdad would not agree to the dispatch of new UN
weapons inspectors to his country. That statement came after
Aziz had conducted talks in the Russian capital the previous
day with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. Members of the
Russian delegation had described those discussions as
"difficult," according to ITAR-TASS, and a scheduled news
conference was cancelled at the last moment after the talks
continued longer than planned. Moscow favors having UN
sanctions against Baghdad lifted but has urged Iraq to allow
UN weapons inspectors to return to the country (see "RFE/RL
Newsline," 14 November 2000). JC
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