NATO Chief Defends Bush on Iraq

World | December 26, 2002, Thursday // 00:00

Nato's secretary-general has defended the Bush administration's policy on Iraq saying there is no question of the Americans taking unilateral military action. Lord Robertson told the BBC's Today programme that President George W Bush had so far kept rigidly to the United Nations route to disarming Iraq. He also warned that Nato members are morally obliged to give the US whatever help it requires if the process of weapons inspections breaks down and the UN decides to launch military action against Iraq. The UN hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is continuing without a break over the Christmas period. Weapons inspectors interviewed an Iraqi scientist at Baghdad's Technology University on Thursday. The 100-minute meeting with the dean of the university marked the second time UN officials have spoken to an Iraqi scientist in their five weeks of inspections.

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