The United Nations' chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, has said he is counting on full co-operation from Iraq after it accepted the new UN resolution on inspections. "We hope and expect to have full Iraqi co-operation," he said after talks in Paris with French Foreign Minister Dominic de Villepin. Mr Blix said that the UN Security Council's unanimous support for a robust new resolution on disarming Iraq had strengthened the hand of the returning inspectors. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein issued a statement on Saturday insisting he had no nuclear weapons of mass destruction and justifying his acceptance of Resolution 1441 as a means of avoiding war.

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