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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basm Özeti Yugoslavshelp Iraq onmissile,U.S. says By Nicholas Wood The Washington Post BELGRADE: Yugoslav defense \ companies have been working for two years on the development of a cruise . missile for Iraq, according ,to a document delivered by U.S. diplomats to Yugoslav government officials this mon~ , The allegations were made in a "nonpaper," or aide-memoire, accompanied by a stem letter to the country's top officials froin the U.S. ambassador in Belgrade. The letter asked Yugoslavia to end its breach of the United Nations arms embargo on Iraq, according to a senior Yugôslav official who has knowl- ,~dge of the U.S. document. "The official said the document as- , serts that Yugoslav scientists have been working on the de~elopment of a turbojet engine for a medium- to longrange cruise missile called CM 1500.It , also alleges that Yugoslav scientists have made repeated visits to Iraq since "early 2001 to complete work on the project, and that the contracts were arranged by the state defense conglomerate, YugC)ÏInpor,t The claims followed a State Department announcement last week that the same company had cooperated with a Bosnian aviation company to help re- . pair and s.ellspare parts for MiG fighter planes destined for Iraq. , The revelations were made after a raid by'North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- . tion troops. on an aviation plant in the Bosnian Serb Republic on Oct. 11.The Yugoslav government has since dismissed the head ofYugoimport, General Jovan Cekovic, as well as a deputy minister of defense, Ivan Djokic. Senior government officials have publicly sought to play down the extent of any deal between the two countries. The Yijgoslav president, Vojislav Kostunica, said Thursday that the contracts boiled down "to overhauling older-generation aircraft engines, rather than to selling state-of-the-art weapons." But sources within the Yugoslav gov-, ernment said theevidence presented by the United States directly contradicted those claims and suggested Yugoslav companies had been working to update expertise Iraq's militaryarsenal and equip Iraq with a weapon that could accurately tar- , get neighboring states. In February 2000, the U.S. document , alleges, Yugoimport concluded a con- , tract'with a company calle'd Al Fatah for the development of a cruise missile. Until now, Iraq has had access only to , ballistic missiles, which are more difficult to control. Yugoimport, the document states, then wo.rked with five, smaller 'private compames to fulml the contract. The companies' were named Infinity, Brunner, GVS, Temex and Interdeal. They were all saidto be associated with or ,controlled by active or retired Yugoslav Army officers. Brunner was assigned to develop an MM 400 turbojet engine for use in a cruise missile. The company is also alleged to have helped build a facility in Libya that manufactures rocket propellant, and to have assisted the Libyan government in obtaining U.S.software designed to improve the accuracy of rockets. A senior securitY adviser to Kostunica refused to comment on the claims made in the U.S. document. The Yugoslav government has closed Yugoimport's office in Baghdad and formed a commission to investigate whether UN sanctions on Iraq have been breached. Milos Vasic, a defense analyst in Belgrade, said Yugoslav scientists had the to develop sl,lch technology but he questioned whether Iraq had the resources to build a missile. U.s. says 'time has come' for UN .vote on Iraq resolution By Brian Knowlton International Herald Tribune WASHINGTON: Its impatience with the United Nations clearly mounting, the Bush administration said Monday that "the time has come" for 'a Security Council vote on the toughly worded Iraq resolution backed by Washington and London but resisted strongly by, France and others. "It is coming down to the wire," said Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman. "The United Nations has debated this now long enough." He suggested no deadline, but the administration clearly counts on action being taken this week. But in Paris, Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said that France would not accept any clause that included an automatic recourse to military action. "We reject any clause on automatic recourse to force because recourse to' force can only be the last resort," he said. A spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, echoing Fleischer's language, said that debate this week probably would determine whether the UN would have a role in dealing with Iraqi arms programs banned by earlier UN resolutions. "People have to make up their minds," said the spokesman, Tom Kelly. Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, briefed the Security Council on Monday, along with Mohammed Baradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency; which is charged with dismantling the Iraqi nuclear program. ' . Afterward, Blix sàid, "Our feelings are that there will be a resolution." He added, "We want to get there as soon as wecan." Baradei said that the two had told the council, in a, closed session. that "we need unified council support behind us, we need explicit authority, good practical arra,ngements and information from all member states"to guide inspectors. As things stand; the possibility of tmified council support does not appear strong. The Security Council has been locked in a diplomatic standoff for six weeks since Bush, under criticism at home and abroad for approaching the Iraq problem unilaterally, asked the UN to pass a resolution to force Iraq to dismantle its banned weapons programs. Hoping to break the deadlock, Villepin of France suggested over the weekend that the 15foreign ministers of Security Council members meet to craft a resolution on Iraqi disarmament. This, he indicated, could use the u.s. draft resolution as a basis for agreement. U.S. diplomats have been increasingly frustrated in their attempts to achieve consensus, as Secretary ofState Colin Powell. indicated Saturday. A compromise. he said, "may evade us." If agreement cannot be' reached, 'Powell. added, "let's come to that realization and move forward." Bush returned from the weekend Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Mexico without the new pledges of support he had hoped for. A meeting with the Chinese leader, Jiang Zemi~, produced no apparent headway in se- 96
Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Baszn (Jzeti ". 'cUring Chinese support. . Bush had hoped to meet with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, a man with whom he has established a close relationship, but Putin canceled a trip amid the hostage-taking crisis at a theater in Moscow. Yet another close Bush friend, President Vicente Fox of Mexico, delivered a further blow to the U.S. campaign for a siDgle UN resolution authorizing use of force agàinst Iraq. Fox, who'has been frustrated by lack of progress innegotiations with the United States on other issues, including migration, said he backed the French approach. which wquld r~quire a second resolution to authOrIze force. only after UN inspectors reported. on their progress. . . Mexico holdsone of the 10 nonpermanent seats on the Security Council The United States and Britain must not only avoid vetoes by anyother permanent member - France, China or Russia - but also secure a total of nine of the 15 total votes. Mexico and Ireland had been seen as possible swing votes. Bush has appeared unusually tense and restless in some recent public ap- . pearances, including his meeting with . , Fox, where he atypically interrupted a translator, saying, "I understood wbat he said." Oh Monday, he warned that President Saddam Hussein of Iraq bad "made the United Nations look foolish," and that the credibility of the world body was at stake. Either the United Nations will do its duty to disarm Saddam Hussein or Saddam .Hussein will disarm himse~" Bush said at. a political rally in Alamogordo, New Mexico. If the UN refuses to act against Saddam, Bush added, drawing lo\!.dcheers, ~the United States willlead a coalition and disarm him." The administration has been operating on the assumption - and with the implied threat - that if the UN fails to act, Washington has the authority to do • so itself, along with whatever coalition of countries it is able toput together. Iran view: u.s. buoys bin Laden Khatami assails policy oh t'errodsm and Iraq . By Elaine Sclolino The New York TImes MADRID: In a sharp criticism of the United States, P:esident Mohammed Khatami of Iran has declared his country's opposition to.a war against neighboring Iraq and charged that Washington's war terrorism is misguided and Des,!!ond Boylen/Reuters has strengthened support for Osama Mohammed Khatami with Jose Maria Aznar at the start of a four-day visit to Spain. bin Laden in the Muslim world. "Have the erroneous policies of the Khatami, a midlevel cleric who studied ble standard in the extraordinary reac- United States made bin Laden more philosophy, is the first Iranian leadtion against Saddam today, compared popular or more hated than before in er to make an official visit to Spain with the world's inaction when he various sectors of the Islamic world?" since Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in turned chemical weapons against Iran Khatami asked Tuesday at a joint news 1965.He is using the occasion to press and even against Iraqi civilians. . conference with the Spanish prime his campaign for the "dialogue among "If chemical weapons are bad, why minister, Jose Maria Aznar, during a civilizations" that he introduced at the when they were used against us or Iraqi three-day official visit to Spain. United Nations four years ago. citizens wasn't Iraq condemned and "Have the erroneous policies of the He delivered a speech Tuesday at pressured?" he asked. United States weakened Islamic trends Complutense University in Madrid on But Iran, which shares a long border that favor wisdom and democracy? The Cervantes and his relevance in today's with Iraq, is vehemently opposed to a United States with its hegemony has world, and will visit the Spanish Senate unilateral American war against, its strengthened bin Laden, so we ought to and meet with business leaders Wednesday. neighbor and the installation of a gov- ' condemn it in some way for supporting He and Aznar signed bilateral ernment of Washington's choosing in terrorism." accords Tuesday on investment protection, Baghdad. Khatami even likened the logic ofbin tourism and customs issues. "We have said several times that we Laden to that of President George W. But his news conference Tuesday are against any military attack on Iraq Bush. was dominated. by questions about terrorism and any unilateral action in resolving "I hear a discourse from two poles," and war. international issues," Khatami said. "To he said. "One is the voice raised from Iran's position toward Iraq is complicated intervene in the internal affairs of a na- Mghanistan' by bin' Laden that says, by the fact that there is no love tion is a dangerous precedent." 'Whoever is not with us must be destroyed.' lost between the ruling clerics in Iran But he called on Iraq to comply with. The other is the voice from the and the Iraqi president, Saddam Hus- Security Council resolutions, a~d hint- United States that says, 'Whoever is not sein. Khatami noted that Saddam invaded ed that Iran would not object to the use with us .isagainst us.' .. Iran in 1980 and used chemical of force against Iraq if the Security He added, "That is a logic which on weapons against Iran during the eightyear Council decided that it had not. border war that followed. "If in the international scene there one side leads to the most atrocious forms of terror and; on the other side, "Of course the whole world knows needs to be further steps taken," he said, on the pretext of confronting terrorism, we've suffered greatly at the hands of "we believe that there should be support creates the worst type of atmosphere for Iraq and the Iraqi regime," Khatami from the United Nations and the international community for waging war." said. He suggested that there was a dou- these.steps." 97
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