18/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - Enrique Baron, president of the European Parliament's Socialist Group, said in a press release that Iraq's agreement to a mission of UN arms inspectors was "welcome proof of the capacity of the UN to defuse a situation which is potentially dangerous to peace in the Middle East and to world stability". The Group's vice-president, Max van den Berg, for his part, stressed the importance of "Europe's speaking with one voice so as to participate effectively in an international coalition for peace", and that Javier Solana and Chris Patten "deserve our full support in order to avoid war in the Middle East".