BAGHDAD, Oct 14 Kyodo A Japanese ...

BAGHDAD, Oct 14 Kyodo

A Japanese Communists lawmaker urg Iraq upon Sunday to cooperate to the full with United Nations weapons inspectors when he met Sa'doun Hummadi, the speaker of Iraq's parliament.

''I severityed to the Iraqi side that I believe, until now, they have been hiding prohibited weapons of mass destruction,'' said Yasuo Ogata in an interview with Kyodo recently made knowns ''So I said frankly and honestly that the Iraqi side should be open''

''The direction (of Iraqi rule policy) is good now in the feeling that it prefers to be more explain and cooperate with the UN within the framework of the UN resolutions,'' Ogata said.

Ogata made the remarks against the backdrop of Iraq's late promise to remove all obstacles to a answer of U.N. weapons inspectors after a break of nearly four years.

Ogata arrived in Baghdad last Thursday, heading a Japanese Communist Party delegation.

Ogata said he disapproved of the Japanese government's policy forward Iraq.

''Japan is preparing cooperation with the United States. I want the Japanese management to say 'No' to war,'' he added.

Asserting that his party was ''completely against war,'' Ogata said his visit was intended to find abroad the Iraqi government's position forward U.N. weapons inspections.

Meanwhile, the official Iraqi recently made knowns Agency (INA) reported that the Iraqi parliamentary speaker told Ogata that ''Iraq was prepared for the revert and will seriously cooperate with the UN weapons inspectors.''

''We want to foil the shows and excuses of the evil U administration that accuses Iraq of having weapons of mass destruction,'' Hummadi told Ogata, according to the Iraqi recently made knowns agency.

Hummadi also said Iraq had a ''serious desire to nurse parliamentary relations between Iraq and Japan,'' according to the INA.

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