The committee's report said "the decision was essentially financial" and "taken atveryshortnotice, albeit with the full agreement of BBC top management".
That task fell to a UNESCO-funded Jordanian consultant, Khuzaima El-Jallad, who undertook a mission to Afghanistan atveryshortnotice to ensure that the 8th March deadline could be met.
Mr. GEORGY MIRSKY (Institute of World Economy and International Relations): I am absolutely certain that Iran is out to produce an atomic bomb, or to reach a stage of technological developments which makes it possible for it to produce a bomb atveryshortnotice.