European Union "The declaration and the program of action are political, not legal documents.
The administration sought to portray the move as a largely symbolic, reciprocal move, made in return for North Korea's long-delayed declaration of its nuclear program to the outside world.
Mostly, the education provided within the framework of the program leads to a public declaration condemning FGM.
The overall impression, which I reported to the Council on Dec. 19 and which remains after some weeks of examination of the Declaration (Iraq's declaration of weapon programs on Dec. 7), is that it is rich in volume but poor in new information about weapons issues and practically devoid of new evidence on such issues.
But Bush administration officials say that they want more than just dismantlement on their record, and insist that they have not written off their chances of getting North Korea to make a complete declaration of its nuclear programs before the end of the administration.
The White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, issued a terse statement noting that Mr. Hussein had met the deadline with "what it claims is a declaration of its programs to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems".
The Security Council voted last week to give Iraq until Dec. 8 to submit a "full, accurate and complete" declaration of any programs it had to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them.
The United States has taken possession of a copy of Iraq's declaration of its weapons programs, after persuading the four other permanent members of the Security Council to support it in insisting on seeing the document immediately, American officials said today.
The United States has taken first possession of a copy of Iraq's declaration of its weapons programs, after persuading the four other permanent members of the Security Council to back it in insisting on seeing the document immediately, American officials said.
Iraq confirmed today that it would turn over a voluminous declaration of its arms programs to the weapons inspectors late Saturday in Baghdad.
