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By Hasan Suroor
Mr. Blix maintained that there was no proof yet to come to such a conclusion, but said he was not excluding the possibility altogether. "We do not contend that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, but we don't exclude it,'' he said hours after the U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell's presentation to the Security Council claiming that Iraq was concealing its deadly arsenal. The British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, and the head of the Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed El Baradei, were also present during Mr. Blix's meeting with Mr. Blair at Downing Street. After the meeting, Mr. Blix warned Iraq that it must cooperate more fully on the "substance'' of inspections, or his next report due on February 14 "may not be what we would have liked it to be''. Mr. Baradei said their visit to Baghdad over the weekend would be "crucial'' and hoped that the crisis would be resolved peacefully. The message from the Security Council, he said, was clear that Iraq must "cooperate fully'' with the inspectors. Details of the meeting were not disclosed, but Mr .Blix was reported to have "updated'' the Prime minister on the inspection process and was in turn given a brief on what he should tell the Iraqi leaders when he meets them.
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