MOSCOW, 27 March /from RIA Novosti's Pyotr
Goncharov/ - Chief of the environmental security department of the Russian
natural resources ministry Viktor Kutsenko said Thursday that to produce
basic components of chemical weapons, combat poisonous substances,
appropriate components and production facilities were required, something
Iraq was lacking at the moment.
Taking into account present intelligence capabilities it is practically
impossible to hide chemical weapons production facilities and their
storage places, said Kutsenko.
Thus, in Kutsenko's opinion, Western media reports saying a plant
producing chemical weapons was discovered in the southern Iraqi city of
Najaf "do not correspond to reality." Moreover, Kutsenko stressed, it was
confirmed by a UN expert who worked in Iraq along other weapons
inspectors. He said there was only one industrial facility in Najaf, a
cement factory, which was inspected as to a possibility to produce
poisonous substances.
The Russian expert is positive reports about Baghdad possessiing
chemical weapons are designed to justify the military operation against
Iraq and the US' irrepressible wish to get access to cheap Iraqi oil.
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