Baghdad signals hard line in dealing with UN
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Mr Ekeus, head of the UN Special Commission (Unscom) disarming Iraq, met Mr Aziz for nearly three hours and said he would have further discussions. 'In a sense we started again,' Mr Ekeus said after the first session, indicating they had gone back to basics after his initial meeting with Muhammad Said Kazim al-Sahhaf, the Foreign Minister, on Thursday.
The official press gave no hint that the government would give way on the dispute over installing UN monitoring cameras at missile-testing sites in Iraq.
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