1.   Appointing a qualified inspections chief would increase pressure on Iraq to readmit U.N. weapons monitors.

2.   Iraqi diplomats say they prefer the existing cap on oil exports because it provides them some measure of relief without accepting new weapons monitors.

3.   The Russian official argued that the international community must be prepared to consider lifting the oil embargo against Iraq if it continues to cooperate with U.N. weapons monitors.

4.   Though vast quantities of chemical and biological agents have been found and destroyed over the past seven years, the weapons monitors warn that large quantities remain secreted.

5.   Warning that Saddam was continuing to develop his chemical and biological weapons capacity, Clinton said that the weapons monitors must be permitted to return to their task.

6.   -- Cooperate with U.N. weapons monitors.

7.   Although all U.N. weapons monitors also have left the country, many U.N. humanitarian staff remained in Iraq Thursday.

8.   Baghdad again on Tuesday turned back a team of weapons monitors that included Americans.

9.   Aziz claimed that Iraq has fully cooperated with the inspectors, a claim that U.N. weapons monitors have repeatedly dismissed.

10.   But on Thursday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf declared that U.N. weapons monitors were not included in the invitation to the palaces.