I replied in detail to this on Priority Questions. I do not accept that the permanent members of the Security Council have sought to undermine the credibility of the Security Council. We are non-proliferators of this type of information. How to make an atomic weapon is not the type of information that should be available to everybody and anybody whenever they want it.
We rely on the inspection teams to issue a report to the Security Council. Hans Blix and Mohammed El Baradei will provide us with an independent and fair assessment of the situation on behalf of the UN secretariat and Security Council. That is their mandate. They will also be able inform us on the nature and extent of the abridged information not already brought to our attention for the reasons I have given. Whatever about the detail of how to make a nuclear weapon, if the Iraqis have one we will know about it. This does not undermine the credibility of the UN.
The UN inspection teams are beginning to inspect this voluminous report, much of which is in Arabic. They must be given time to assess it. There will be a preliminary assessment next week, and I am sure further meetings will follow next month when the inspectors have got through the whole dossier.
It is incorrect to suggest that the UN Security Council is not doing its job. The inspection teams have my full confidence. They are going through the dossier methodically and when they report I will listen very carefully to what they have to say. We will put any questions we may have and obtain any other information we may seek as a result of the inspectors' assessment. Let us take this step by step.