Not Everyone Got It Wrong on Iraq, Russian Envoy Says
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By Evelyn Leopold
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia's U.N. ambassador said late on Monday his country was never sure Iraq (news - web sites) had weapons of mass destruction, despite assertions from former U.S. arms inspector David Kay that "we were almost all wrong."
The furor over whether Iraq possessed unconventional weapons, a justification for the U.S.-led war, recently flared again after Kay said he believed there were no large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq.
Russian ambassador Sergei Lavrov, at his annual meeting with the press, said that Russian officials repeatedly maintained they did not have enough information.
"We said that we don't have information which would prove that the WMD, weapons of mass destruction, programs remain in Iraq. We also said we don't have information that those programs have been fully stopped," Lavrov said.
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