ng and Verification Centre, told Reuters he was heading for Habbaniya airport 80 km (50 miles) west of the capital on his way back to the United Nations headquarters. Officials had said he was due to return at the end of the week, but he has apparently cut short the visit after problems at talks with Iraqis. Sullivan said Butler‘s plane would leave from Habbaniya airport at mid-day on Tuesday for Bahrain, the rear base of the activities of the UNSCOM in charge of dismantling Iraq‘s weapons of mass destruction. She said Butler would leave for New York on Tuesday evening and he would be reporting to the U.N. Security Council on Thursday. „My duty is to report what has happened to the Security Council and I will leave for New York today,“ Butler told reporters shortly after checking out of the Rasheed hotel in Baghdad. On Monday Butler said the talks might be suspended after no progress was made in a first round on Monday with Iraqi leaders.