A SPOKESMAN FOR THE IRAQI FOREIGN

MINISTEY BRIEFED TO INA THE U.N ARMS INSPECTORS ACTIVITES ON TUESDAY .

HE INSPECTORS ACTIVITES WERE CARRIED ON AS USUAL, THE SPOKESMAN SAID, ADDING THAT 77 INSPECTORS INSPECTED 8 SITES AND HELD MEETING WITH DIRECTORS OF THESE SITES AND MEMBERS OF NMD AND CARRIED OUT THE RADATION SURVEY FOR A NUMBER OF SITES THEY VISITED IN AL-MUSIL PROVINCE.

A BIOLOGICAL WARFARE TEAM ALSO HEADED FOR MOSUL TO INSPECT A PHARMACEUTICAL FACTORY.

ANOTHER TEAM VISITED BAGHDAD UNIVERSITY AND OTHER EXPERTS WENT TO A SUSPECT SITE AT RADWAN,IN THE ABU GHURAIB AREA, ABOUT 15 KM WEST OF BAGHDAD.

THE IRAQI OFFICIALS SAID CHEMICAL EXPERTS HEADED FOR A SITE AT DIJLA, NORTHEAST OF BAGHDAD, WHILE A MISSILE TEAM CHECKED OUT AL-SWARI COMPANY, OWNED BY THE INDUSTRY MINISTRY, AT TAJI, A SHORT DISTANCE NORTH OF THE CAPITAL. MORE THAN 100 INSPECTORS FROM THE IAEA AND THE UN MONITORIN, INSPECTION AND VERIFICATION COMMISSION (UNMOVIC) ARE NOW HERE, TRYING TO DISCOVER WHAT IRAQ HAS BEEN UP TO SINCE THEIR PREDECCESSORS LEFT BEFORE U.S -BRITISH AIR RAIDS IN 1998, WHICH LASTED FOR FOUR DAYS AND RESULTED IN KILLING MORE THAN 70 VICTIMS, MOST OF THEM WERE CIVILIANS.