8 December – With new United Nations weapons experts arriving in Baghdad, teams from the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today continued their operations in Iraq.
An UNMOVIC team carried out an inspection of the Falluja III site – a chemical factory engaged in the production of pesticides, insecticides and rodent poisons – of the Al-Tariq Company, which is located about 100 kilometres west of Baghdad.
The facility also hosts a research and development department which is concerned with “new formulations and synthetic processes for local production of active ingredients,” said Hiro Ueki, a spokesman for UNMOVIC and the IAEA.
The site contains a number of tagged dual-use items of equipment, which were all accounted for, Mr. Ueki said, while all key buildings at the site were inspected. “The objectives of the visit were successfully achieved,” he reported.
An UNMOVIC team carried out an inspection of the Falluja III site – a chemical factory engaged in the production of pesticides, insecticides and rodent poisons – of the Al-Tariq Company, which is located about 100 kilometres west of Baghdad.
The facility also hosts a research and development department which is concerned with “new formulations and synthetic processes for local production of active ingredients,” said Hiro Ueki, a spokesman for UNMOVIC and the IAEA.
The site contains a number of tagged dual-use items of equipment, which were all accounted for, Mr. Ueki said, while all key buildings at the site were inspected. “The objectives of the visit were successfully achieved,” he reported.