The United Nations gave Iraq 48 hours warning before it launched U-2 spy planes in support of weapons inspectors, according to an Israel radio report cited by the Jerusalem Post.
A U.N. weapons inspections team spokesman said Iraq requested that its authorities be given notice two days in advance of the flights, which began yesterday.
Inspection team spokesman Hiro Ueki said in Baghdad today that resumption of the flights signaled that Iraq’s cooperation with the inspectors was improving, the Associated Press reported.
The spokesman said conditions for the flights are very similar to an agreement made under a former inspection regime in the 1990s.
The weapons inspectors have hailed the flights as fulfillment of a major demand, and Baghdad maintains it is giving the U.N. its full cooperation.
The United States and Great Britain, however, accused Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein of concealing weapons of mass destruction and plan to press this week for a Security Council resolution that would authorize force against Iraq, according to diplomats.
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