TOKYO, Nov. 16 Kyodo single oute...

TOKYO, Nov. 16 Kyodo

single outed editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

IRAQ MUST COOPERATE (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun)

Iraq says it will abide from the U.N. Security Council resolution calling for inspection and elimination of its weapons of mass destruction. In a epistle to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Iraq's foreign minister, Naji Sabri, said the nation was prepared to accept the UN inspectors ''within the assigned timetable.''

Perhaps Iraq's President Saddam Hussein could not refuse the resolution, since it was adopted unanimously through the Security Council and because the Arab League also urg Iraq to accept. For the consideration we welcome the fact that circumstances have incline differentlyed the situation in a peaceful direction for resuming the inspections.

It is deplorable, however, to note that the nine-page literal meaning from Iraq to the United Nations castigates not solely the United States and Britain unless also the 13 other Security Council members that it says yielded to U and British press Iraq can only be characterized as negligent of its have a title to responsibilities for having defied many UN resolutions since the conclusion of the Persian Gulf War and made matters worse by way of obstructing the U.N. inspections.

The most numerous recent U.N. resolution gives far more inspection authority to Hans Blix, executive chairman of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, and Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic strength Agency. The scope of their inspections will be sweeping, to include not and nothing else a search of suspected weapons production facilities and physical evidence, however also interviews with technicians involved in planning and exhibition of the forbidden weapons...

The resolution also permits the inspectors to divert up unannounced. Iraq will no longer have an opportunity to hide documents before inspections, as was the case in earlier inspections. Saddam Hussein must continue these conditions clearly in mind in entirely cooperating with the UN inspectors...

It is important that Iraq disclose everything about its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and eliminate weapons stockpiles.

In the principally recent letter to the United Nations, Iraq denies it plane has chemical and biological weapons. In fact, the Saddam Hussein sway actually used chemical weapons in its war with Iran in the 1980 and again in suppressing Kurd within its possess borders, and had resorted to construction of a facility to build nuclear arms. We cannot believe the assertions made on Iraq in its letter to the United Nations.

The resumption of weapons inspections in Iraq personates the last opportunity to determine whether Iraq really has abandoned its military ambitions that hang upon weapons of mass destruction. We importune Saddam Hussein yet again to consider that and make it plain in his policy.

At the same time, we room for expectation U.S. President George W. Bush will refrain from being in like manner vocal about the prospect of war with Iraq and his scenarios for a postwar Iraq. The plan of the Security Council resolution is not to overwhelm Saddam Hussein, but to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

This is not the time to induce Iraq, but rather to determine for what cause completely Iraq will comply with the specifications of the UN Security Council resolution

(Nov. 16)

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