U.N. INSPECTORS REVIEW IRAQI CUSTOMS AND AGRICULTURAL RECORDS
Teams of United Nations arms inspectors have reviewed records at Iraq’s customs and agricultural control agencies for evidence of trade in nuclear, chemical and biological agents for the development of weapons of mass destruction.
The U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission spent several hours at the headquarters of the General Commission of Customs in Baghdad on Sunday, Dec. 29.
On Monday, Dec. 30, another inspection team conducted a review of the
Plant Protection Division #1 in Abu Ghraib, which manages Iraq’s agricultural quarantine centers. “Its main activities comprise screening of imported and exported agricultural products and distribution of pesticides,” said Hiro Ueki, a spokesman for the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Baghdad.