News Update on Iraq Inspections

UNMOVIC/IAEA Press Statement on the Handover of the Iraqi Declaration, 7 December 2002

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Today at 8:00 p.m., Baghdad time, the Government of Iraq handed over to UNMOVIC and the IAEA at the Baghdad Ongoing Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Centre (BOMVIC) documents and CD-ROMs containing Iraq's declaration pursuant to paragraph 3 of Security Council resolution 1441 (2002). The handover took place at the Canal Hotel, which houses BOMVIC. The declaration will be transmitted expeditiously to the United Nations Headquarters in New York and the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna. BOMVIC is the operations base of UNMOVIC and the IAEA in Iraq.

Hiro Ueki
Spokesman for UNMOVIC and the IAEA in Baghdad