· The U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection teams conducted their first weapons inspections today.
· They left the Canal Hotel, the operations base for the weapons inspectors in Baghdad, at 8:30 a.m., accompanied by their Iraqi counterparts. The IAEA team returned to the operations base at about 12:30 p.m. The UNMOVIC team returned shortly after 5:00 p.m.
· At the subsequent press briefing, Jacques Baute, the IAEA Iraq Action Team Leader, said that his team had visited a facility in northern Baghdad called Al Tahidi (Science Research Centre). His team was able to complete the inspection work it had planned to carry out.
· Dimitri Perricos, the UNMOVIC inspection team leader and Director of the Division of Planning and Operations, UNMOVIC, said that his team had visited two sites at Al Rafah, approximately 130 km south southwest of Baghdad. One was a graphite plant and the other a missile engine testing facility.
· They left the Canal Hotel, the operations base for the weapons inspectors in Baghdad, at 8:30 a.m., accompanied by their Iraqi counterparts. The IAEA team returned to the operations base at about 12:30 p.m. The UNMOVIC team returned shortly after 5:00 p.m.
· At the subsequent press briefing, Jacques Baute, the IAEA Iraq Action Team Leader, said that his team had visited a facility in northern Baghdad called Al Tahidi (Science Research Centre). His team was able to complete the inspection work it had planned to carry out.
· Dimitri Perricos, the UNMOVIC inspection team leader and Director of the Division of Planning and Operations, UNMOVIC, said that his team had visited two sites at Al Rafah, approximately 130 km south southwest of Baghdad. One was a graphite plant and the other a missile engine testing facility.