MOSCOW, March 9: A senior Russian official on Sunday accused the United States of inconsistency in its approach to Iraq and “constantly changing the rules of the game.”

“We are well informed about the US position, we are cooperating with the United States and we are trying to understand what its motivation is, and also why it keeps changing the rules of the game,” Deputy Foreign Minister Yury Fedotov said in an NTV television discussion on Iraq as quoted by the Interfax news agency.

Under last November’s UN Security Council resolution 1441 ordering Iraq to disarm, “the main emphasis was laid on international inspectors’ access to all of Iraq’s facilities,” Fedotov said.

Access was given, “but then we were told that this was not enough, that Iraq’s cooperation was only formal, and that real disarmament must begin,” he continued.—AFP