<p>MOSCOW (AP) - Saddam Hussein promised a Russian envoy that international inspectors won't be hindered in their work, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday.</p>
<p>The statement said Saddam made the promise in a meeting Sunday in Baghdad with Yevgeny Primakov, a former Soviet foreign minister and Russian prime minister. Primakov has mediated in Iraq on several occasions, most prominently with attempts to stave off the 1991 Gulf War.</p>