your thoughts and, ambassador ekeus, this is an issue that the u.n. dealt with other countries before. what thoughts do you have about what the agency and iran need to do in the next meeting to start to clear this up? >> well, i mean, there are some -- i have written on this and -- [inaudible] but i also have been responded from iaea aside. it's not public, but they indicate that they have some competence. i have questioned the competence of the military. i go that from, of course, my long experience in iraq. my judgment is that iraq has -- iaea has not the competence to deal with the military -- [inaudible] and that, of course, go back to george bondi's proposal to the secretary. i think one must -- there are ideas floating around in vienna that one should, so to say, see if i can build with specific competence. this is highly sensitive, because it's a proliferation dimension. how do you deal the weapon. and that is, but i think it's very important that -- [inaudible] that's why i think that the security council should take responsibility, because of

ambassador ekeus, this is an issue that the u.n. has dealt with other countries before. what thoughts do you have about what the agency and iran need to do in this next meeting to start to clear this up? >> well, there are some concrete terms. i've also been responded from aye -- iaea sides. they indicate they have some questions. i have that because of my long experience in iraq. my judgment is iraq -- iaea has the competence to deal with the military sanctions. that of course goes back to the proposal to the secretary. i think one must -- floating around vienna that one says, see if they can build specific competence. this is highly sensitive because of the proliferations, i mentioned, how they build the weapon. that is -- but i think it's very important that the security council should take responsibility because of the dangers, the threat to the international peace, security involved in this. so something more similar to something more controlled under the security council to build confidence there. i -- i am on the record questioning the competence of this group and