LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

UN weapons inspections in Iraq

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

29 Jun 1991

Year of production

1991

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:03:40

Description

Paul Woodley reports from the UN headquarters in New York on UN demands for weapons inspectors to be allowed into Iraq amid fears Iraq may be constructing nuclear weapons; and the US threat to bomb Iraq if demands are not complied with. Includes statement by US State Department spokesperson Margaret Tutwiler on Iraqi actions against the inspectors; interview with Alexander Watson, American deputy ambassador; speeches by UN Security Council President Jean Jacques Bechio (through translator); US President George H. W. Bush; Iraqi ambassador to the UN.

Contributors

Paul Woodley; Margaret Tutwiler; Alexander Watson; Jean Jacques Bechio

Keywords

USA; UN; New York; Weapons; Nuclear weapons; Arms control; Nuclear bomb; Military intelligence; Iraq

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.