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  1. “The large nuclear infrastructure was destroyed and the fissionable material was removed from Iraq by the IAEA. One of three important questions before us today is how much might remain undeclared and intact from before 1991 and, possibly, thereafter; the second question is what, if anything, was illegally produced or procured after 1998, when the inspectors left; and the third question is how we can prevent any weapons of mass destruction from being produced or procured in the future. In December 1999 - after one year without inspections in Iraq - resolution 1284 (1999) was adopted by the Council, with four abstentions.”

    2003-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4692 (2003) · source

  2. “As a result, the disarmament phase was not completed in the short time expected. Sanctions remained and took a severe toll until Iraq accepted the oil for food programme and the gradual development of that programme mitigated the effects of the sanctions. The implementation of resolution 687 (1991) nevertheless brought about considerable disarmament results. It has been recognized that more weapons of mass destruction were destroyed under this resolution than were destroyed during the Gulf War: large quantities of chemical weapons were destroyed under UNSCOM. supervision before 1994. While Iraq claims - with little evidence - that it destroyed all biological weapons unilaterally in 1991, it is certain that UNSCOM. destroyed large biological weapons production facilities in 1996.”

    2003-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4692 (2003) · source

  3. “Unlike South Africa, which decided on its own to eliminate its nuclear weapons and welcomed inspection as a means of creating confidence in its disarmament, Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance - not even today - of the disarmament that was demanded of it and that it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace. As we know, the twin operation "declare and verify", which was prescribed in resolution 687 (1991), too often turned into a game of hide-and-seek. Rather than just verifying declarations and supporting evidence, the two inspecting organizations found themselves engaged in efforts to map the weapons programmes and to search for evidence through inspections, interviews, seminars, inquiries with suppliers and intelligence organizations.”

    2003-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4692 (2003) · source

  4. “They called for declarations by Iraq of its programmes of weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles, verification of the declarations through the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the IAEA, and supervision by these organizations of the destruction or the elimination of proscribed items and programmes. After the completion of the disarmament, the Council would have the authority to proceed to a lifting of the sanctions and the inspecting organizations would move to long-term ongoing monitoring and verification. Resolution 687 (1991), like the subsequent resolutions to which I shall refer, required cooperation by Iraq, but this was often withheld or given grudgingly.”

    2003-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4692 (2003) · source

  5. “They went on for eight years, until 1998, when inspectors were withdrawn. Thereafter, for nearly four years there were no inspections. They were resumed only at the end of November last year. While the fundamental aim of inspections in Iraq has always been to verify disarmament, the successive resolutions adopted by the Council over the years have varied somewhat in emphasis and approach. In 1991, resolution 687 (1991), adopted unanimously as a part of the ceasefire after the Gulf war, had five major elements. The first three related to disarmament.”

    2003-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4692 (2003) · source

  6. “Mr. Blix: Resolution 1441 (2002), adopted by the Security Council on Iraq in November last year, asks the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to "update" the Council 60 days after the resumption of inspections. This is today. The updating, it seems, forms part of an assessment by the Council and its members of the results, so far, of the inspections and of their role as a means to achieve verifiable disarmament in Iraq. As this is an open meeting of the Council, it may be appropriate briefly to provide some background for a better understanding of where we stand today. With the Council's permission, I shall do so. I begin by recalling that inspections as a part of a disarmament process in Iraq started in 1991, immediately after the Gulf War.”

    2003-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4692 (2003) · source