UNEP URANIUM
April 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has said it wants to launch quickly into an analysis of sites in Iraq targeted with weapons containing depleted uranium (DU), now that the US-UK led invasion appears to be winding up. The agency's executive director Klaus Toepfer says that although its work in the Balkans has "concluded that such contamination does not post any immediate risks to human health or the environment, the fact remains that depleted uranium is still an issue of great concern for the general public." He added: "An early ...
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