As such, Mr. Blix said, the Council had asked UNMOVIC and the IAEA to examine the documents and determine whether any parts should not be circulated.
"All the Governments in the Council are aware that they should not have access to anything that anyone else does not have access to, so if any parts would be proliferation-prone, none of them would like to have it," he said. "But we of course would have to report to the Council the criteria upon which we are advising that we should withhold any parts."
This process, he observed, "may take a little time, and before we get to that question, which is an important one - the Council was unanimous - there is the mechanical handling" of the Declaration. "There will be large parts that will be in Arabic, and as we understand it now, it is unlikely that anything will be on CD-ROMs, so we will have to attain that, and that's a bit of mechanical work," he noted, adding that he would report to the Council next week on the matter.
A closer assessment of the document, which could run to 10,000 pages, "of course will take a little longer," Mr. Blix cautioned.
Responding to questions, he said the U.N. experts in Iraq would welcome "as much information from any Member State as to evidence that they may have on weapons of mass destruction, and in particular sites, because we are inspectors - we can go to sites."
"All the Governments in the Council are aware that they should not have access to anything that anyone else does not have access to, so if any parts would be proliferation-prone, none of them would like to have it," he said. "But we of course would have to report to the Council the criteria upon which we are advising that we should withhold any parts."
This process, he observed, "may take a little time, and before we get to that question, which is an important one - the Council was unanimous - there is the mechanical handling" of the Declaration. "There will be large parts that will be in Arabic, and as we understand it now, it is unlikely that anything will be on CD-ROMs, so we will have to attain that, and that's a bit of mechanical work," he noted, adding that he would report to the Council next week on the matter.
A closer assessment of the document, which could run to 10,000 pages, "of course will take a little longer," Mr. Blix cautioned.
Responding to questions, he said the U.N. experts in Iraq would welcome "as much information from any Member State as to evidence that they may have on weapons of mass destruction, and in particular sites, because we are inspectors - we can go to sites."