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Richard Butler said he would send the missile shards to labora tories in France and Switzerland for further analysis, as Iraq has de manded. But he said the tests were conducted by one of the world’s premier chemical weapons labo ratories. “I explained to the council that that is very serious because Iraq has always insisted it never weaponized VX,” Butler said. “These findings show they did ... put it in weapons’ warheads. ” Although Butler agreed to fur ther testing, he was confident the findings would be the same. “I made clear there is no doubt” that “VX was present in some of those weapons warheads,” he said. “These degradation products could be from no other substance. These are unique products. They were of VX, they were found in a munition, namely a missile war head. That’s weaponization.” The allegation was among the most serious raised against Iraq by the U.N. Special Commission, which has conducted weapons in spections in Iraq since 1991. U.N. inspectors must verify whether Iraq has destroyed all long-range missiles and nuclear, chemical and biological weapons before the council will lift eco nomic sanctions imposed in 1990 after President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Iraq has admitted having main tained VX supplies but claims it was never able to develop the technology to place the deadly nerve agents in a weapons sys tem. If the findings are true, they could undermine efforts by Rus sia, France and China to close the seven-year inspection program and lift the sanctions. French Ambassador Alain De jammet, one of the strongest crit ics of the inspection program within the 15-member council, said that if the European laborato ries uphold the findings “it would be a matter to be discussed very se riously.” The report reinforced the posi tion of the United States and Britain that Iraq still has far to go before releasing enough informa tion on its weapons program to warrant the lifting of sanctions. “I think Iraq is conducting its di version and deception campaign and it’s not working,” U.S. Am bassador Bill Richardson said as he arrived for the meeting. “Facts are facts. Iraq has been deceiving the international community with weaponization of nerve gas. ” The Iraqis, in a statement Tues day, denied placing VX in war heads and questioned the scientif ic basis for the report by the U.S. Army laboratory in Aberdeen, Md. VX is a colorless, odorless liq uid that turns into a gas when it comes into contact with oxygen. A few drops can kill in minutes. Iraq said further tests should be conducted in a neutral country — such as Switzerland — or in France or Russia. Butler noted that the Aberdeen lab is certified for chemical weapons testing by the international Chemical Weapons Convention. Unless Iraq provides more in formation on its VX program, the report could trigger another crisis similar to the one over access by U.N. inspectors to presidential palaces. That crisis was defused by Sec retary-General Kofi Annan, who won international acclaim in Feb ruary for striking a deal with the Iraqis to open the Iraqi sites and avert U.S.-led airstrikes. 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