Portrait of the Week – 5 October 2002

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Iraq said that weapons inspectors could return to Baghdad within a fortnight after it reached a deal with the United Nations granting ‘immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access’ to all areas except Saddam Hussein’s palaces. The United States and Britain worked busily to get the UN Security Council to pass a resolution requiring stricter conditions for Iraqi compliance. The Israeli army lifted the siege of Yasser Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah after pressure from the United States. In Ivory Coast, government forces continued to fight rebels, while French troops in jeeps scoured the countryside for Westerners seeking rescue. More than 400 bodies were recovered and another 600 feared dead after a passenger ferry capsized off The Gambia en route from Casamance in southern Senegal to its capital Dakar. Juan Jose Ibarretxe, the head of the Basque regional government, announced a referendum on ‘shared sovereignty’ over the region with Spain, based on the model proposed by Britain and Spain for Gibraltar. In elections for the presidency of Serbia, President Vojislav Kostunica of Yugoslavia and Mr Miroljub Labus, the deputy prime minister, went through to a second round of voting. In the Moroccan general election, parties of the previous leftist coalition secured a solid block of seats, but the Justice and Development party, which is moderately Islamist, said it would not join such a coalition; it is up to King Mohammed VI to ask a prime minister to form a government. Kerim Sadok Chatty, the Swedish Muslim arrested after being found with a pistol in his luggage as he joined a Ryanair Boeing 737 flight to London, was released on bail. A shopkeeper from Tangshan in Nanjing, eastern China, was sentenced to death after authorities said he had confessed to putting rat poison in snacks sold by a rival shop, leaving 38 dead and hundreds sick.

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