Richard Butler
Richard Butler
English singer who was the lead musician for the Psychedelic Furs, as well as the founder and member of the band Love Spit Love.
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth5 June 1957
cooperation good iraqi spirit
I think I can feel a new spirit and good cooperation from the Iraqi side.
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This is a good opportunity for us to measure where we are during the early stage of the season.
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I intend to pursue this matter in a very determined way.
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And what's different? We'll have some diplomatic observers with us to make sure that both sides -- not just UNSCOM, but Iraq, too -- behave in an appropriate manner in these special sites,
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Iraq's conduct ensured that no progress was able to be made in either the fields of disarmament or accounting for Iraq's prohibited weapons program.
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Biology is a black hole. Biological agents are an area where they have never told us the truth.
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He mentioned in particular his wish for me to hear their report on chemical and biological weapons. That seemed to me to be a positive development and I took it in good spirit.
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The game is only just afoot. And there is yet more to come and there have been some hints of both good cooperation but also some inconsistencies that demonstrate, I think, that the road ahead is somewhat bumpy.
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I think there is a good basis for conversation between the two sides aimed at ironing out those difficulties and seeing that we don't get into crisis again.
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They've got to tell us the whole truth about their weapons -- they've got to let us into the sites that we need to inspect to verify those facts and then destroy the weapons involved. That's the way out of this one.
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In light of this experience, that is, the absence of full cooperation by Iraq, it must regrettably be recorded again that the commission is not able to conduct the substantive disarmament work mandated to it by the Security Council and, thus, to give the council the assurances it requires with respect to Iraq's prohibited weapons programs.
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Like the Security Council, I take at face value their promise to offer full cooperation.
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I don't think there's any doubt at all -- the man is thoroughly back in business making weapons of mass destruction.
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Maybe with respect to those (eight) buildings there will be some special arrangements made where our professional team will be accompanied by diplomatic observers,