Iraq agreed to fly over his territory of reconnaissance aircraft

Iraq gave on Monday consent to flying to his territory with the aim of inspection with unmanned intelligence aircraft provided by the UN of the United States, France and Russia. This was reported on Monday by reporters at the UN headquarters by the permanent representative of Iraq at the UN Muhammad ad-Duri. According to him, an agreement on this was reached by Iraq with Yunmovik.

Advisor to the Iraq presidential administration, General Ammer al-Saadi, explained at a press conference that we are talking about conducting integrated air intelligence. At ultra -large heights, it will be carried out by U -2 and Mirage aircraft, on medium - “Antonov”, on low helicopters, and on ultra -low “Droungs” aircraft of German production.

Earlier, when it was about using only the American aircraft U-2, Baghdad and Yunmovik could not find an acceptable compromise on this issue.

However, Yunmovik did not confirm a message about reaching an agreement with Iraq on the use of international inspectors of reconnaissance aircraft.

The representative of the Yunmovik in New York refused to comment on the permanent representative of Iraq at the UN Mohamed al-Dauri, made on Monday of the unconditional consent of Baghdad to use unmanned aircraft.

At the same time, Baghdad promised the UN to adopt a law that prohibits the production of weapons of mass destruction in the country next week.

The main military inspectors Hans Blix and Muhammad al-Baradei put forward the renewal of reconnaissance flights as one of the indispensable conditions for the active cooperation of Iraq and the UN. Baghdad until the Visit of the Blix and Al-Baradei, which was held at the end of last week, refused to guarantee the safety of flights of spy aircraft in the so-called zones closed for Iraqi aviation flights, ITAR-TASS reports.

These zones were unilaterally declared the United States and Great Britain after the 1991 Persian Gulf in the north and south of the country under the pretext of protecting the Kurdish population. The American and British Air Force regularly take these zones.

On Monday, the US Air Force and Great Britain struck the territory of Iraq - 2 people died, 9 were injured

American and British aircraft inflicted another blow to the Iraqi air defense objects on Monday. According to representatives of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces, the Earth-Air missile system, which Iraq has recently recently relocated in the so-called "Forbidden for flights" zone. As a result of the raid, two people were killed and nine were injured.

The Air Force aircraft of the Allies made attacks of objects on the territory of Iraq for already 14 out of 41 days of this year.