31.   Baghdad said it was ceasing cooperation with the United Nations because the chief weapons inspector, Richard Butler, refused to certify that Iraq had destroyed its banned weapons.

32.   Baghdad stopped cooperating with inspectors after Butler refused to certify that it had destroyed its banned weapons.

33.   Baghdad maintains its banned weapons programs have been eliminated.

34.   Baghdad says it has destroyed all its banned weapons but U.N. inspectors want to verify the extent of the weapons programs through documents and other evidence.

35.   Both the Bosnian Serb and government forces routinely have put banned weapons in the zone.

36.   But the inspectors have consistently accused Iraq of trying to hide banned weapons, including chemical weapons and nerve agents capable of killing hundreds of thousands of people.

37.   Butler insisted Friday that his inspectors should be allowed to visit any site in Iraq in search of banned weapons.

38.   Butler refused to elaborate on his statement that the inspectors had evidence banned weapons might be stored on off-limits sites.

39.   But U.N. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it would conclude that Iraq has not provided adequate evidence that it has destroyed all banned weapons.

40.   Butler and his team believe that Iraq is still concealing key information on its banned weapons programs.