BLIX REPORT

CNN: Inspectors report to divided council
Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix told the United Nations Security Council Friday that inspectors had not found any weapons of mass destruction during their search in Iraq, but he did not rule out the possibility that they may exist.

Blix said that the chief problem for U.N. weapons inspectors lies in locating such chemical weapons as the deadly VX nerve agent Iraq was known to have in 1998 but are not on the Iraqi declaration.

Blix told the council that Iraq should either present any weapons of mass destruction to inspectors for destruction or show evidence that they have been destroyed.

Blix, executive chairman of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission and Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, are delivering key reports Friday to the council, which is sharply divided over the best course to take to get Iraq to conform with international demands to disarm.