ACCESSION NUMBER:00000

FILE ID:97112003.txt

DATE:11/20/97

TITLE:20-11-97  WHITE HOUSE REPORT, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1997



TEXT:

(Iraq/Geneva talks)  (230)



IRAQ MUST COMPLY WITH THE WILL OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY



"The meeting of the foreign ministers last night in Geneva strongly

reaffirmed our unanimous position," on Iraq, President Clinton said in

the early morning of November 20, in his first comment following the

overnight meeting in Geneva of the foreign ministers of the United

States, Russia, France, Britain and China.



"Saddam Hussein must comply unconditionally with the will of the

international community and allow all the weapons inspectors back in

Iraq so they get on with the job without interference," Clinton said.

"After that (the Geneva meeting) he said he would do that," Clinton

said. "In coming days we will wait and see that he does in fact comply

with the will of the international community."



Clinton made his remarks on Iraq at a breakfast meeting in the State

Dining Room of the White House with religious leaders. "I just want to

reiterate," he said, "that the United States must remain and will

remain resolute in our determination to prevent him from threatening

his neighbors and the world with nuclear, chemical and biological

weapons. This is an issue that I hope will become even more important

to all Americans and a greater subject of discussion. We must do this.

That is the duty we have to our children," Clinton said.

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