Hans Blix, the head of the UN inspections body, was due to meet Iraqi officials in Vienna, to discuss the practicalities of re-entering the country.
— As Detroit's airport was rattled on Sunday by a second frightening incident in three days, passengers at airports in the United States and around the world encountered stiff layers of extra security, with international travelers undergoing newly required bag inspections, body searches and questioning at security checkpoints and before they boarded planes.
One of the key issues currently being discussed is what the future holds for the inspection body.
Russia wanted Unscom, the now-defunct (and spy-infested) inspection body, formally abolished; America insisted on keeping it involved.
Meanwhile the Policy Exchange thinktank, which Gove set up in 2002, is calling for evidence from schools about whether the school inspection body is "fit for purpose".
He said he planned to allow experts from Unscom, the now-disbanding first arms inspection body, to compete for jobs on the new commission.
Some have been criticised by the schools-inspection body, Ofsted, and one was placed in "special measures" to improve teaching standards.
He is complimentary of the inspection body's framework, which he says has helped improve teaching standards, but he believes a less prescriptive and bureaucratic model for school improvement needs to be devised.
The "quest" is not state regulation but yet another chance for self-regulation with an independent inspection body to make sure it is not the Press Complaints Commission all over again, which I'm sure you will agree, David, was rubbish.
Both UNSCOM, the UN inspection body that Iraq so often defied, and the embargo, which put a stop to all trade with Iraq except the limited sale of oil in exchange for food and medicine, would be scrapped.
But many private schools are accused of offering a poor education more focused on Islam than exams; Jameah Islameah, for one, has been severely criticised by Ofsted, the schools-inspection body.These arguments, until recently, resonated with the government.
