In the meantime, pain from the sanctions has deepened.
"The UK's exemption from the sanctions proposal will be explicit.
All flights to Iraq have to seek approval from the sanctions committee.
"Iran and Russia will benefit most from the sanctions," he said.
On Monday, the Bush administration seemed to back away from the sanctions idea.
Both countries were suffering economically from the sanctions, he told a Senate committee this year.
Winning that recognition, as much as winning relief from the sanctions, appears to be driving the Iranian negotiators.
Serbia's economy, still recovering from the sanctions and chaos of the Milosevic years, needs outside capital to help generate jobs.
"But the other piece of it is, I think, they're feeling a lot of pressure from the sanctions.
The Bush administration has asked Congress to exempt Russia from the sanctions, saying Moscow dropped discriminatory emigration practices long ago.
Mr. Hussein wants a no-strings-attached escape from the sanctions imposed after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
