UN environment minister declined to comment on depleted uranium in Iraq

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Iraq faces 40 mln usd bill to clean up toxic, radioactive waste - UN

GENEVA (AFX) - Iraq faces a massive 40 mln usd environmental clean-up campaign to tackle the lethal toxic and radioactive legacy of more than two decades of conflict and neglect, a UN agency and Iraqi authorities said.

Five sites near Baghdad, described by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) as 'the tip of the iceberg', have been identified for an initial clean-up, but there are thought to be thousands more.

'There are thousands of polluted areas in Iraq, either from industrial or military pollution,' Iraq's environment minister, Narmin Othman, said at the launch of a UNEP assessment of environmental 'hotspots' in Iraq. snip

He declined to comment on the level of danger the depleted uranium might represent.

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