91.   Iraq on Wednesday barred Americans from U.N. weapon inspection teams and gave them a week to leave the country.

92.   Iraq once again turned back U.N. weapons inspection teams that included Americans on Sunday, a day before the U.N. Security Council was to meet to discuss the dispute.

93.   Iraq says it has met the U.N. conditions, but the arms monitors repeatedly have accused Iraq of withholding information and misleading weapons teams.

94.   Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz reiterated a proposal to create a U.N. weapons inspection team less top-heavy with Americans, a French newspaper reported Monday.

95.   It was the first time the U.N. weapons team had attempted an inspection since Iraq announced that it was giving American inspectors one week to leave the country.

96.   It was the first time the U.N. weapons team had attempted an inspection since Iraq announced that American arms monitors had a week to vacate the country.

97.   Last month, Iraq expelled American members of a U.N. weapons inspection team monitoring compliance with resolutions requiring Iraq to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction.

98.   Meanwhile, two nuclear monitoring teams went into the field on Sunday, a day after the government said it was ending almost all cooperation with U.N. weapons teams.

99.   Most of the serious incidents between Iraq and the U.N. weapons teams in recent months have involved such concealment inspections.

100.   Nateq-Nouri will discuss economic issues with Syrian and Lebanese officials as well as the crisis between Iraq and the United Nations over U.N. weapons inspection team.