White House Spokesman Scott McClellan said on Monday, "it seems like Iraq's move in shooting at coalition planes is "material breach" of the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441, and we are thus entitled to complain at the Security Council."
Iraq kept up its denunciations of the allied no-fly zones Monday, as Washington declared that Baghdad was in "material breach" of a new U.N. disarmament resolution when it fired on U.S. planes patrolling the zones.
Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was quoted by the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) as saying the air exclusion zones set up after the 1991 Gulf war were illegal. The zones in Northern and Southern Iraq were "imposed by a unilateral U.S.-British decision and are not based on any relevant Security Council resolution," he said while receiving a delegation from Austria.
The INA dispatch ran after the White House said Monday that Iraqi fire on U.S. and British warplanes constituted a "material breach" of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441 on disarming Iraq.
Iraq kept up its denunciations of the allied no-fly zones Monday, as Washington declared that Baghdad was in "material breach" of a new U.N. disarmament resolution when it fired on U.S. planes patrolling the zones.
Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was quoted by the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) as saying the air exclusion zones set up after the 1991 Gulf war were illegal. The zones in Northern and Southern Iraq were "imposed by a unilateral U.S.-British decision and are not based on any relevant Security Council resolution," he said while receiving a delegation from Austria.
The INA dispatch ran after the White House said Monday that Iraqi fire on U.S. and British warplanes constituted a "material breach" of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441 on disarming Iraq.