Melissa Fleming Quotations

We are awaiting the green light from the U.N. Security Council to tell us what are the next steps,

We've answered that request by saying it would take us more than a week to put our surveillance equipment in place, asked them to refrain from removing any of the seals that would enable us to make sure the equipment hasn't been touched.

We're going to scour through this document word for word, and we're going to check it against declarations we've received in the past,

We decided to focus on countries that have a big nuclear program.

We regret that they left. But we've kept an open office. We're storing our equipment there, leaving open the eventual possibility that our inspectors could return.

One would have to assume it's been stolen by someone who has some sort of nefarious purpose for it.

He intends to direct it to charity and other good causes. He will not keep it for himself.

Our immediate concern is that if the explosives did fall into the wrong hands they could be used to commit terrorist acts and some of the bombings that we've seen.

We continue to seek clarifications. This could take a few days.

Without conditions is a key phrase that we've been looking for. Without conditions means that our inspectors can operate under terms where we can immediately have access -- unconditional and unrestricted access -- to sites that we want to visit.

Without conditions is a key phrase that we've been looking for,

We'll request immediate clarification. We have an emergency system in place if something happened.

We are ready to go back immediately. We have been ready for the past four years. We are looking for co-operation in all respects -- unconditional and unrestricted -- for our inspectors.

We're not in the position at all to make any kinds of judgment on this document -- truth or no truth. We're in a good position to be able to assess the document in due time against vast amounts of information we have and against what our inspectors can go out and look for on the ground.

This will certainly give him more leverage and credibility. It will be much harder to refuse to listen.

This should (in) no way be seen as an endorsement.

To put inspectors in place they have to know where they will be and what they will be observing.

We have accepted this invitation to go to Baghdad with the clear expectation of action that needs to be taken by Iraq prior to the visit.

We have expressed clearly to the North Koreans that we expect there will be monitoring of their nuclear activities, and we hope that they will reconsider.

at the highest level. But this is not a condition.

It was very clear from our analysis that they were forgeries. We found 20 to 30 anomalies within a day.

a number of questions, a number of outstanding issues on very specific technical matters -- but significant ones -- that need to be cleared up.

This is a real massive quantity of explosives that could have reached the hands of insurgents and could be used with deadly force and consequences against people in Iraq,

There was no explanation. We're still seeking clarification.

It's obviously a unilateral decision on Iran's part, taken despite repeated requests from the board of governors to maintain a full suspension.

The agency calls on Iran again not to start any activities in Isfahan before the IAEA inspection system is in place.

Once this resolution is passed, a tougher stage will begin and we will see what effect the board of governors' calls on Iran will have.

The meeting today was supposed to be about the clarification of Iran's 'R&D' (research and development) intentions in restarting their nuclear program.