Russia has agreed with the four other permanent Security Council members to the principle of tightening arms controls on Iraq, a Russian diplomat said today.
"We have accepted the philosophy," Vladimir Safrankov, a political counselor at the Russian mission to the United Nations, told reporters.
Russia is one of the five permanent council members whose ambassadors met earlier to discuss conditions for renewing the UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq. The current phase of the programme expires Friday.
Safrankov said the five had agreed to extend the programme for six months to May 31st, 2002, and to adopt a goods review list for weapons imports at the end of that time.
READ MORE
A Western diplomat confirmed the agreement.
AFP