MOSCOW SAYS INCREASED U.S., U.K. FLIGHTS OVER IRAQ
'OBSTACLES' TO PEACE.' Yakovenko said on 11 May that
the increasing number of American and British patrol
flights over the no-fly zones of Iraq are making the
situation there more difficult and represents
"obstacles on the way" to the regulation of the Iraqi
situation, Interfax reported. Meanwhile, on 12 May,
Emergency Situations Minister Shoigu proposed to the
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation that it
cooperate with Moscow in clarifying whether Western
countries had used spent uranium shells during the
Gulf War, the news service said. PG
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