MOSCOW. Jan 27 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia believes that a UN Security Council decision is vital for laying to rest the uncertainty surrounding the presence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
The spokesman offered his comment on a statement made on Monday by David Kay, the former head of a team of U.S. inspectors in Iraq, about the futility of searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
"According to our information, Kay said that the possibility of discovering stockpiles of these kinds of weapons in Iraq is very low. He thinks that they (weapons of mass destruction - Interfax) do not exist there at all," he said.
"This conclusion did not come as a surprise for us. It is known that international inspectors of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspections Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have not found WMD in Iraq either," the spokesman said.
"At the same time, in order to put an end to this issue, the UN Security Council should revisit the mandates of the UNMOVIC and the IAEA, as envisioned by its Resolution 1483, and make an appropriate decision based on their reports," he said.