Monday, 17. March 2003
Topic: W A R - on March 17, 2003 at 2:16:16 PM CET
Inspectors urged to leave Iraq
U.S. to call Security Council members in last-ditch bid. War fears loomed Monday, as Western nations urged their citizens to leave the Gulf region and U.N. nuclear inspectors said they had been advised to pull out of Iraq.
On the diplomatic front, the White House on Monday was to make a last-ditch effort to wring an Iraq resolution from the U.N. Security Council, even as France repeated its vow to veto any measure that included an ultimatum on Saddam Hussein's disarmament.
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