DEUTSCHER
FUSSBALL-BUND

EGIDIUS BRAUN · PRÄSIDENT

Herrn
Prof. Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Außenminister a.D.
Twenty-Sixth Floor
350 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10022
USA

MAY 24 1999

20. Mai 1999

Sehr geehrter, lieber Herr Professor Dr. Kissinger,

zu Ihrem Geburtstag übersende ich Ihnen die herzlichsten Glückwünsche -
persönlich und als Präsident des Deutschen Fußball-Bundes im Namen aller
Mitglieder. Gesundheit und hervorragende Schaffenskraft mögen Sie auch
weiterhin begleiten. Der Kosmopolit Henry Kissinger ist weltweit gefragt. Ihre
Meinung zum Kosovo-Krieg hat mich sehr nachdenklich gemacht. Hoffentlich
tut sich bald etwas auf diplomatischem Wege.

Mit großem Interesse lese ich regelmäßig Ihre Artikel in der "Welt am Sonn-
tag". Die Analysen führen hervorragend in die verschiedensten Gebiete der
Weltpolitik ein und beleuchten die Situation und die aktuelle Politik wohlwollend
kritisch. Sie regen mich jedesmal von neuem zu Gedanken und zur Reflexion
der eigenen Meinung an. Vielen Lesern wird es ähnlich gehen. Sie geben da-
mit Impulse zum politischen Denken, das seinerseits Voraussetzung für die
Gestaltung der Gesellschaft ist.

In ganz besonderer Dankbarkeit denke ich an Ihren Besuch auf dem DFB-
Bundestag im vergangenen Oktober zurück. Auch unsere Mitglieder sprechen
mich noch sehr oft darauf an. Sie haben viele Menschen fasziniert. Ich wäre
sehr glücklich, wenn Sie uns auch anläßlich des 100jährigen Jubiläums des
Deutschen Fußball-Bundes im Jahre 2000 besuchen könnten. Von Herzen la-
de ich Sie zum Gründungsfestakt am 28. Januar 2000 ein. Dieser findet im be-
rühmten Leipzig-Gewandhaus statt.

Franz Beckenbauer würde Sie gerne einmal im Zusammenhang mit seiner
Verantwortung um die WM 2006 ansprechen.

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May 20, 1999

Dear Prof. Dr. Kissinger:

Warmest congratulations for your birthday--personally and as president of the Deutscher Fussball-Bund on behalf of all members. May you continue to enjoy good health and productivity. The cosmopolitan Henry Kissinger is sought after around the world. Your view on the war in Kosovo left me very pensive. Hopefully something will happen soon on the diplomatic course.

I read your articles in WELT AM SONNTAG regularly with great interest. The analyses feed excellently into the most varied areas of international policy and shed light on the situation and actual policy. In each case, they inspire thinking and reflection on my own views--as will happen with many readers. With your articles, you provide an incentive for political thought--a provision for the shaping of society.

With special gratitude, I think back on your visit to the DFB Bundestag last October. Our members also raise it frequently with me. You fascinated many people. I would be delighted if you could also visit us for the 100th anniversary of the DFB in 2000 and invite you to the founding ceremony on January 28th. This will be held in the famous Leipzig Gewandhaus (drapers' hall).

Franz Beckenbauer would like to talk to you sometime about his responsibility for the WM (world championship) 2006.

I wish you a wonderful birthday surrounded by those close to you and send warm regards to a very special friend of soccer and a great man on the world stage.

Yours,

Egidius Braun

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THE AMBASSADOR

December 13, 1999

Ms. Rebecca A. Nelson
Executive Assistant
Office of Henry A. Kissinger
350 Park Avenue 26th. Floor
New York, N.Y. 10022

DEC 21 1999

Dear Ms. Nelson,

I have received your letter of December 6, 1999, and have the pleasure to inform you that the letter by Dr. Kissinger has already been forwarded to His Excellency Fernando Henrique Cardoso by diplomatic pouch. I would also like to inform you that an advance copy of the letter was sent to President Cardoso's International Adviser by facsimile on December 8th.

FROM : BROTHER'S KEEPER

PHONE NO. : 8188666129

Jan. 29 1999 02:59PM P4

BROTHER'S KEEPER "POLITICALLY IMPOLITE" #E0415

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45.

II/K

PORTER

Good. I think that's smart. I mean
you're smart. Look, just pick a
position: does personality develop
because of nature or nurture?

BOBBY

Neither! Both! I don't know, you and
I were raised by the same parents, but
we're nothing alike. It's like
footballs.

PORTER

(NOT AGAIN) Everything is not like
football.

BOBBY

This is. We're all like footballs.
Footballs are all supposed to be
identical, right? Official size and
weight. But they're not. They all
have different grain patterns,
variations in color... No two are
alike.

PORTER

Oh, so you're saying people are like
snowflakes.

BOBBY

No, snowflakes are all the same.

FROM : BROTHER'S KEEPER

PHONE NO. : 8188666129

Jan. 29 1999 03:00PM P6

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INT. POLITICALLY INCORRECT SHOW (ON AIR) - LATER
(Porter, Bobby, Dena, Bill Maher, Dr. Henry Kissinger)

THE GUESTS ARE SEATED. BILL THROWS OUT THE TOPIC.

BILL MAHER

Kids today, eh? What are you going to
do? Should you try to be a good parent,
or is it a waste of time because it's
all hard-wired in anyway? Anyone?

BOBBY

I'll go. Me. I don't think it's nature
or nurture. I think no matter what
you do, everybody turns out different --

KISSINGER

Yes. It's like footballs.

BOBBY

What?

KISSINGER

I'm reminded of the classic paradigm:
Footballs are assumed to be identical;
yet, like snowflakes, no two are alike.
And those differences are what we
celebrate.

THE AUDIENCE APPLAUDS.

FROM' : BROTHER'S KEEPER

PHONE NO. : 8188666129

Jan. 29 1999 03:00PM P7

1/29/99 - SECOND DRAFT

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BOBBY

Hey! That was mine! He stole my thing!

BILL MAHER

Yeah, Bobby. We always knew you were
the brains behind Henry Kissinger.

AS THE AUDIENCE LAUGHS:

CUT TO:

INT. BACKSTAGE - CONTINUOUS

PORTER IS WATCHING THE SHOW ON A MONITOR, WITH DENA.

BOBBY (O.C.)

I mean it! He's a thief! You're a
thief!

A SMALL SMILE CREEPS ONTO PORTER'S FACE.

FADE OUT:

END OF ACT TWO

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September 20, 1999

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Dear Henry,

It was great fun travelling back with you; I will try to arrange in the next issue for you to
have a photo op with Pamela Lee Anderson.

If you have a minute, do glance at my note I sent the other day asking if you would be kind enough to contribute something for the Christmas issue, which I think you might have fun with. In case you didn't see it, here's a recap: we're planning a feature for the end of the century double issue called 10 Conversations That Changed the World. We are asking a group of people with interesting minds and historical knowledge to nominate a 20th century conversation and, in no more than 400 words, describe it and defend its importance. We are hoping that the choices will be controversial and provocative. We are paying $1000 for copy that would be required Monday, September 27th.

I think the feature will be widely discussed and it would be terrific to have you participate.
Is there any chance we can persuade you to do it?

Virginia Heffernan will follow up to see if you can do this for us.

Roy Jenkins, Arthur Schlesinger, and Newt Gingrich, and others are participating.

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Dear Mr. Buchan:

I was delighted to receive an advance copy of Weidenfeld & Nicolson's new edition of _A World Restored_ and the promise of others on their way. Not only am I very honored that the book was one of those selected for reissue to celebrate Weidenfeld & Nicolson's 50th anniversary, but the new publication will be extremely useful since, as you know, it is out of print here.

My thanks to you and your colleagues for such a handsome new edition.

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face to face?

The rule of thumb, when gearing up for oriental protocol, is hyperbole. Clare Boothe Luce once related that her diplomatic instruction, on her first trip to China, was to anticipate seven exchanges of bows on being presented to Mme. Chiang kai-Shek, making sure that hers was the seventh; and for that reason, the most deferential bow. The assumption, until last week, was that the Mao-Nixon exchange was at least courteous. The news now, with the publication of the National Security Archive, is that it was more than that, it was oleaginous.

Nixon. I have read the Chairman's poems and speeches, and I knew he was a professional philosopher.

[Mao wasn't a professional philosopher.]

Mao (looking at Kissinger) He is a doctor of philosophy?

Nixon. He is a doctor of brains.

Kissinger. I used to assign the Chairman's collective writings to my classes at Harvard.

[The Thoughts of Chairman Mao were must reading for all Chinese, and interesting to Harvard students who wondered how such vapid "thoughts" could achieve sacramental standing.]

Mao. Those writings of mine aren't anything. There is nothing instructive in what I wrote.

[This was either formalistic modesty or sheer cant. While we were there, Peking ordered 50 million more copies printed of the non-instructive writings.]

Nixon. The Chairman's writings moved a nation and have changed the world.

[The Thoughts of Chairman Mao, plus about twenty million executions, could accomplish, certainly moved the nation.]

Mao. I haven't been able to change it. I've only been able to change a few places in the vicinity of Beijing... We two must not monopolize the whole show. It won't do if we don't let Mr. Kissinger have a say. You have been famous about your trips to China.

Kissinger. It was the President who set the direction.

[Mao had no problem in recognizing the hierarchical imperatives:]

Nixon. He is a very wise assistant to say it that way.

[The record contributes: "Mao laughed."]

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When Khrushchev made his first trip to Washington, at the invitation of President Eisenhower, there was a groundswell of protest. In those days we didn't pal around with Communist leaders, not after Pottsdam, Czechoslovakia, Berlin, Korea--and the conquest of China. General Ike sensed it and when there were television cameras recording the scene in the company of Stalin's successor, Ike never smiled. He communicated that he was engaged in diplomatic ordure, but--it had to be, in search of peaceful coexistence.

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THE ARTHUR F. BURNS FELLOWSHIP

Patrons
Jürgen Chrobog
John C. Kornblum

January 14, 1999

Mr. Robert A. Lutz
President & CEO
Exide Corporation
P.O. Box 14205
Redding, PA 19612-4205

Dear Mr. Lutz:

Ein Projekt der IJP e.V.
für Journalisten aus der
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
und den Vereinigten Staaten
von Amerika

Postanschrift
Postfach 1565
Höhenblick 2
D-61455 Königstein/Ts.

Telefon
(61-74) 77-07

Telefax
(61-74) 41-23

http://www.ijp.org/afburns

**Kuratorium**
Helmut Schäfer
Vorsitzender
Dr. Hans Heiner Boelte
Reinhard Bettzuege
Klaus Bresser
Anke Fuchs
Hans Dietrich Genscher
Dr. Manfred Gentz
Dr. Reiner Hagemann
Peter Hausmann
Tessen von Heydebreck
Helmut Markwort
Dr. Angela Merkel
Dr. Günther Nonnenmacher
Dr. Jürgen Richter

Gerd Schulte-Hillen
Manfred Stolpe
Antje Vollmer

Beirat
Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling
Wolfram Schweizer

**Vorstand**
Rainer Haubrich
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Volkhardt Kruse
Martina Niembs
Stefan Oelze
Martin Spiewak
Vassilios Theodossiou

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I am writing to you in my capacity as president of the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, a leading international exchange program for young journalists between the United States and Germany.

At what is clearly an isolationist period in our history, this program has taken on an exceptional importance as it enters its tenth year. The relationship between the United States and Europe, and specifically with Germany, is central to any proper understanding of American political, economic, social and cultural interests. The news media are essential to this awareness, and the Burns program has been a standard bearer on its behalf.

For this reason, I am seeking support for the Fellowship. Specifically, I request that the Exide Corporation consider a grant in the amount of $20,000. Given your corporate interests, the Burns program is an excellent fit. The Burns Fellowship has an impressive track record of training young journalists to overcome historical stereotypes and to broaden their international interests. In a world of rapid globalization, there is no better way to sensitize journalists to the important ties between the United States and Germany. The Fellowship targets young promising media professionals who have the potential of rising to the top of their profession. Already, many alumni have moved up in the hierarchies of their news organization or serve as foreign correspondents.

I have enclosed a formal proposal and relevant material in support of our grant request. If you have further questions, please contact our development coordinator, Kristin Crouch, by phone 417/725-6421 or e-mail: kcrouch@dialnet.net.

Thank you for your consideration.

Arthur F. Burns
Fellowship Program, Inc.

**Mailing address**
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Journalists
1616 H. Street, N. W.
Third Floor
Washington, D.C. 20006

Telephone
(202) 737-3700

Telefax
(202) 737-0530

E-mail: burns@icfj.org

**Board of Trustees**
Richard Burt.
President
Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling.
Vice President
David E.R. Dangoor
J. Whayne Dillehay
George N. Fugelsang
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
James F. Hoge
Craig Kennedy
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Bill Kovach
George A. Krimsky
Joseph I. Lieberman
John W. Madigan
Rev. Dr. Patrick H. O'Neill
Norman Pearllstine
John E. Rielly
Eugene Roberts
Dr. Jürgen Ruhfus
Donald R. Shanor

**Selection Committee**
David Anable
Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling
Genevieve P. Hardigg
William Schmick III

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January 14, 1999

Ms. Fran Crabtree
Vice President
United States Advocates for Youths Foundation
P.O. Box 2175
La Jolla, CA 92038-2175

Dear Ms. Crabtree:

For this reason, I am seeking support for the Fellowship. Specifically, I request that the United States Advocates for Youths Foundation consider a grant in the amount of $20,000. Given the Foundation's mandate, the Burns program is an excellent fit. The Burns Fellowship has an impressive track record of training young journalists to overcome historical stereotypes and to broaden their international interests. In a world of rapid globalization, there is no better way to sensitize journalists to the important ties between the United States and Germany. The Fellowship targets young promising media professionals who have the potential of rising to the top of their profession. Already, many alumni have moved up in the hierarchies of their news organization or serve as foreign correspondents.

Postanschrift
Postfach 1565
Höhenblick 2
D-61455 Königstein/TS.

Telefon
(61-74) 77-07

Telefax
(61-74) 41-23

http://www.ijp.org/afburns

**Kuratorium**
Helmut Schäfer
Vorsitzender
Dr. Hans Heiner Boelte
Reinhard Bettzuge
Klaus Bresser
Anke Fuchs
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Dr. Manfred Gentz
Dr. Reiner Hagemann
Peter Hausmann
Tessen von Heydebreck
Helmut Markwort
Dr. Angela Merkel
Dr. Günther Nonnenmacher
Dr. Jürgen Richter

**Belrat**
Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling
Wolfram Schweizer

**Vorstand**
Rainer Haubrich
Dr. Mathias Döpfner
Volkhardt Kruse
Martina Niembs
Stefan Oelze
Martin Spiewak
Vassillos Theodossiou

**Bankverbindung**
Frankfurter Sparkasse
Klo. 341 479
8LZ 50050201

**Mailing address**
International Center for
Journalists
1616 H. Street, N.W.
Third Floor
Washington, D.C. 20006

Telephone
(202) 737-3700

Telefax
(202) 737-0530

E-mail: burns@icfj.org

**Board of Trustees**
Richard Burt,
President
Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling,
Vice President
David E. R. Dangoor
J. Whayne Dilliehay
George N. Fugelsang
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
James F. Hoge
Craig Kennedy
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Bill Kovach
George A. Krimsky
Joseph I. Lieberman
John W. Madigan
Rev. Dr. Patrick H. O'Neill
Norman Pearlstine
John E. Rielly
Eugene Roberts
Dr. Jürgen Ruhlfus
Donald R. Shanor

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(417) 724-8710

DATE

ADDRESS

Dear __________:

You may have heard recently from Ambassador Richard Burt in his capacity as President of the Board of Trustees of the Arthur Burns Fellowship program, on which Board I have also served for the past six years.

Since its inception, the program has been very successful in arranging for exchanges between upcoming young German and American journalists. It fosters high-quality journalism on Germany and promotes better German-American understanding by forming life-long relationships among our Fellows.

I have been tremendously impressed by the experience these young journalists have had while living and working in each other's countries for two months. I am certain that the impact will be profound over the long run. The Fellowship's American alumni have already formed a cadre of future foreign correspondents and commentators with a stronger understanding of the transatlantic relationship and its importance for the future.

Ambassodor Burt hopes to meet with you or whomever you designate to discuss the program and its funding needs. If you or one of your colleagues would have a moment to see him or another representative of the Program, I would be most grateful.

Sincerely,

GEORGE BUSH

June 3, 1999

JUN 07 1999

Dear Henry,

Everyone at the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship program is thrilled
that you are the new leader there. You were great to accept; and I think
you might well enjoy it. I know the fellows will consider it a real honor
hearing from you at the annual meeting.

Thanks for undertaking this new task and thanks for your good letter.

Barbara and I are here now 'til the leaves change in the fall, thus
escaping the Texas heat.

Life is so good for us these days - far more happiness than we deserve.

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Known in Baghdad as Mad Dog and an agent of Israel, respectively, UNSCOM head Richard Butler and former chief arms inspector Scott Ritter are portrayed by the Iraqis as two of the main obstacles to the lifting of an eight year old sanctions regime that UNICEF estimates has been responsible for the death of more than 1.2 million Iraqis, 750,000 of them children. Wellington-based freelance journalist **Jeremy Rose** caught up with Butler and Ritter at the State of the World Forum in San Francisco, earlier this month, and spoke to them about the ongoing stand-off in the Middle East. *See also next story: companion article on Scott Ritter.*

To the Iraqis, United Nations Special Commission chair Richard Butler may be the "mad dog" responsible for the death of 250 children daily, but to the organisers of the State of the World Forum he is a great peace-maker leading the world to an era free of nuclear weapons.

It's somehow characteristic of the straight-talking Aussie, that three days before he was due to receive a humanitarian prize from the forum, he would dismiss comments by Iraq's UN ambassador, Mr Hamdoon, in front of a worldwide BBC audience, as "too pathetic for words".

If there's one thing that stands out about Richard Butler the diplomat, it is his seeming lack of diplomacy.

Iraqi, and for that matter Arab, sensibilities don't appear to be high on his agenda. At the end of last year Butler caused an outcry among both UN officials and the wider diplomatic community with a provocative statement, to a New York Jewish audience, that Iraq still possessed enough weapons of mass destruction to wipe out Tel Aviv.

And a comment quoted in the New York Times, around the same time, that he suspects truth in some cultures, "is kind of what you can get away with saying, and what you can get the crowd to believe", has been widely interpreted by Arab commentators as racism.

But ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, and indeed the world of nuclear weapons,

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has definitely been high on his agenda for many years.

As Australia's ambassador to the UN. he successfully introduced the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to the General Assembly. And as chair of The Canberra Commission on nuclear disarmament he contributed to the formulation of a step-by-step plan for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

More controversially he was a key player in the indefinite extension of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. A move that critics claim was tantamount to giving the nuclear weapons states a permanent legal monopoly on nuclear weapons.

But, it's as the head of UNSCOM, the UN. body charged with verifying that Iraq has destroyed its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons capability, that Richard Butler has come to the attention of the world.

Since August last year as the executive chair of UNSCOM he has been involved in a public game of brinkmanship with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein that has regularly seen the US and its allies on the verge of attempting to bomb Saddam into submission.

On the very day that Butler was to receive a prize from the State of the World Forum - an off-shoot of the Gorbachev Foundation committed to nuclear abolition and peaceful conflict resolution he was to be called back to the Security Council's headquarters in New York for an urgent meeting to discuss Iraq's decision to stop co-operating with UNSCOM.

A divided Security Council was unable to agree on what action to take. The US and Britain, with the vocal support of allied such as New Zealand, had no such difficulty and came within less than an hour of bombing Baghdad before Saddam once again backed down.

The Washington Post predicted last week that the latest stand-off marks the end of UNSCOM.

Barton Gellman, in an articled titled "Mourning Begins for UNSCOM" argues that UNSCOM had exceeded its grasp by in effect trying to exercise the privileges of a conquering power while ignoring the still intact sovereign rights of Iraq.

UNSCOM and the sanctions imposed to help facilitate its work have been the subject of increasing international criticism from both within the United Nations bureaucracy and the wider international community. What makes the Post article noteworthy is that in emanates from the heart of US-power.

When asked to comment on the resignation of the UN's former head of humanitarian aid in Iraq, Denis Halliday, in protest at the sanctions policy and Halliday's belief that the sanction are in breach of the UN Charter, Butler's response is characteristically blunt.

"His first point that they're in contradiction of the charter is Bullshit. Have I put that economically enough?"

Butler, however, concedes that sanctions are hurting ordinary Iraqis while the leadership is "awash with money".

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"I've been working quite hard at headquarters with others to try to design sanctions that wouldn't hit the ordinary people, but would hit the leadership," he says.

As an example of how sanctions might be changed to impact on leaders rather than their people Butler points to Swiss banks accounts.

"I think that's the future. I think the future in the Security Council will be more sophisticated designs of sanctions to try and mitigate the effects on innocent people, and to target those who really are the criminals."

But on the question of whether the United Nations has to bear some responsibility for the death of more than 1.2 million Iraqis, which the UN's own humanitarian agencies UNICEF and the World Health Organisation have both attributed to the eight years of the most comprehensive sanctions regime in history, Butler is unequivocal.

"Iraq sends out reams of propaganda every day about how this is killing them and how this is a wicked thing being done to them by the world community. I tell you it is being done to them by their own leader. He could have turned that key."

"That man," Butler says, "has traded the welfare of 22 million people for his preference to have a biological weapons programme."

Butler's references to Saddam are spat out with a contempt that is almost palatable and one gets the feeling that this game of brinkmanship has become intensely personal.

When asked whether the sanctions policy isn't like shooting down a hijacked plane to punish the hijacker without any regard to the welfare of the passengers, Butler replies that Saddam is the pilot not a hijacker.

The focus is always Saddam.

On Halliday's claim, backed up by UNICEF and World Health Organisation statistics, that more than 4000 children are dying per month due to the sanctions, Butler simply says, "If they're right."

To describe the interview to this point as convivial would be an exaggeration, but when the subject of Israel is raised Butler becomes positively hostile.

His response to a question on whether it had been a diplomatically sensitive move to co-operate so closely with the region's only possessor of nuclear weapons, and a country that has itself occupied neighbouring land, is to storm out of the interview.

Mad dog or peace-maker? Ultimately history will decide.

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -- After months of unrelenting criticism from Iraq as well as Russia, Richard Butler has decided to leave his post as chief UN weapons inspector when his two-year contract expires in June.

But he was adamant that the problem was not his tenure as head of the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) but whether Iraq would ever cooperate on arms inspections.

In an interview with Reuters on Thursday, Butler said he "would not be seeking a renewal of my contract." He said some people believed that if he were removed from his post "everything would be restored, Iraq would cooperate, there would be health in the system.

"This is a very serious subject. Keep your eyes on the main subject," Butler said.

He had indicated to Australian newspapers previously he might not stay on past June but his new comments were the clearest statement yet of his intentions.

Russia's ambassador Sergei Lavrov has conducted a fierce campaign against Butler, calling almost daily for his ouster and accusing him of being biased and unprofessional. Lavrov, backed by China and France, wants UNSCOM abolished and most of its duties farmed out to other disarmament groups.

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DECISION MAKERS
and DIPLOMACY

Tuesday, November 17, 1998 Published at 16:27 GMT

Butler: Iraqi hate figure

Richard Butler: Tough line has infuriated the Iraqis

The Head of the United Nations Special Commission (Unscom) in Iraq is accustomed to being in the hot seat.

Since he replaced Rolf Ekeus on 1 July 1997, as head of the UN weapons inspectors, Richard Butler has been repeatedly criticised by the Iraqi government and media, who consider him "America's man".

One government-controlled newspaper described him as a "mad dog".

The 56-year-old Australian diplomat made his reputation as a disarmament negotiator while ambassador to the conference on disarmament in Geneva from 1983 to 1988.

Back in the 1960s, he worked with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He has also spent five years as Australia's envoy to the UN.

Tough diplomat

Despite intense pressure from Iraq and its supporters, Richard Butler has refused to give Baghdad a clean bill of health, and thus allow the lifting of sanctions.

Not all UN Security Council members share Washington's appreciation for his tough stance.

Recently Moscow suggested appointing a Russian as a second deputy chairman of Unscom, so as to balance the commission and mollify the Iraqis.

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The move was rejected by the US, which said that
such an appointment could only be made by Mr Butler
himself.

Currently he has one deputy, the American Charles
Duelfer.

Known for his bluntness

His remarks have often caused controversy.

During the latest crisis with Iraq, he was quoted as
saying that Baghdad has enough biological weapons to
"blow away Tel Aviv" - a remark that had caused panic
in Israel.

In a recent interview in Sydney he described the Iraqi
presidential palaces that were to be inspected by his
team as "marbled edifices of kitsch".

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