MOSCOW UNIMPRESSED BY U.S.-U.K. PLAN TO MODIFY IRAQ SANCTIONS
REGIME. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ordzhonikidze told Interfax on
17 May that "it is clearly premature to speak of Russian support" for an
American-British proposal to modify the United Nations sanctions regime
against Iraq. "There are too many unclear points in the proposals to
which we have not received answers in the course of preliminary
consultations," he said. PG
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