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Elbaradei

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2003-01-27
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2009-09-24
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  1. “We have begun helicopter operations, which increase the inspectors' mobility and their ability to respond rapidly to new information and allow wide-scale radiation detection surveys. Laboratory analysis of environmental samples is continuing and we will be reinstalling air samplers for wide-area environmental monitoring. We also will reintroduce surveillance systems with video cameras in key locations to allow near-real-time remote monitoring of dual-use equipment. By its very nature, the inspection process, both in Iraq and elsewhere, is based not on trust, but on a thorough process of fact-finding supported by access to all available information. Where applicable, this should include information available to States that may be relevant to the purpose of the inspection.”

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

  2. “We are also making progress on a number of other issues related, for example, to the attempted importation of a magnet production facility. In addition to the new authorities granted by resolution 1441 (2002), I believe that the unified resolve of the Council to support the inspection process has been a vital ingredient and must remain so if we are to achieve a peaceful resolution of the situation in Iraq. I trust that the Council will continue its unified and unequivocal support for the inspection process in Iraq. Over the next several months, inspections will focus ever more closely on follow-up of specific concerns as we continue to conduct visits to sites and interviews with key Iraqi personnel.”

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

  3. “A good example is the Iraqi declaration concerning high-explosive HMX, which states that, of the HMX under IAEA seals in Iraq at the end of 1998, some had been supplied to cement plants as an industrial explosive for mining. The whereabouts and final use of the removed material are matters that will require further investigation, although it will be difficult to verify the disposition of the HMX that is declared to have been used. A fourth focal point has been the investigation of reports of Iraqi efforts to import uranium after 1991. The Iraqi authorities have denied any such attempts. The IAEA will continue to pursue this issue. At this stage, however, we do not have enough information and we would appreciate receiving more.”

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

  4. “To verify this information, IAEA inspectors have inspected the relevant rocket production and storage sites, taken tube samples, interviewed relevant Iraqi personnel and reviewed procurement contracts and related documents. From our analysis to date, it appears that the aluminium tubes would be consistent with the purpose stated by Iraq and, unless modified, would not be suitable for manufacturing centrifuges. However, we are still investigating this issue. It is clear, however, that the attempt to acquire such tubes is prohibited under Security Council resolution 687 (1991). Another area of focus has been to determine how certain other dual-use materials have been relocated or used - that is, materials that could be used in nuclear- weapons production but also have other legitimate uses.”

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

  5. “First, we have inspected all of those buildings and facilities that were identified, through satellite imagery, as having been modified or constructed over the past four years. IAEA inspectors have been able to gain ready access and to clarify the nature of the activities currently being conducted in these facilities. No prohibited nuclear activities have been identified during these inspections. A particular issue of focus has been the attempted procurement by Iraq of high-strength aluminium tubes and the question of whether these tubes, if acquired, could be used for the manufacture of nuclear centrifuges. Iraqi authorities have indicated that their unsuccessful attempts to procure the aluminium tubes related to a programme to reverse engineer conventional rockets.”

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

  6. “Although the Iraqi Government recently committed itself to encouraging Iraqi officials and other personnel to be interviewed in private when requested, regrettably the third request, made two days ago, for a private interview was again turned down by the interviewee. The IAEA will continue to determine the modalities and locations of the interviews, including the possibility of interviewing Iraqi personnel abroad. We will continue to report to the Security Council on our efforts to conduct interviews according to our preferred modalities and venues and our degree of success in that regard. Let me summarize briefly a number of the findings that have resulted from our inspection activities thus far.”

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

  7. “The inspectors have also conducted a great number of interviews of Iraqi scientists, managers and technicians - primarily in the workplace in the course of unannounced inspections - as a valuable source of information about past and present programmes and activities. The information gained has been helpful in assessing the completeness and accuracy of Iraq's declarations. Resolution 1441 (2002) also clearly gave IAEA and the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission the authority to determine the modalities and venues for conducting interviews with Iraqi officials and other persons. The first two individuals whom the IAEA requested to see privately declined to be interviewed without the presence of an Iraqi Government representative. This has been a restricting factor.”

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

  8. “In addition to on-site inspection and offsite analysis, IAEA inspectors have employed a variety of tools to accomplish their mission. Taking advantage of the signature of radioactive materials, we have resumed the monitoring of Iraq's rivers, canals and lakes to detect the presence of certain radioisotopes. A broad variety of environmental samples and surface swipe samples have been collected from locations across Iraq and taken to IAEA laboratories for analysis, and we have reinstituted routine car-borne and hand-held gamma surveys for the detection of undeclared nuclear material.”

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

  9. “In this context, we have integrated the new information submitted by Iraq, including the declaration submitted on 7 December in response to resolution 1441 (2002), with the records we had accumulated between 1991 and 1998 and the additional information we had compiled through remote monitoring since 1998. The Iraqi declaration was consistent with our existing understanding of Iraq's pre-l99l nuclear programme; however, it did not provide any new information relevant to certain questions that have been outstanding since 1998, in particular regarding Iraq's progress prior to 1991 related to weapons design and centrifuge development. While these questions do not constitute unresolved disarmament issues, they nevertheless need further clarification.”

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

  10. “While we are continuing to some extent with this reconnaissance work, our inspections are now well into the investigative phase - with particular emphasis on determining what, if anything, has occurred in Iraq over the past four years that is relevant to the re-establishment of Iraq's nuclear capabilities. These investigative inspections focus on areas of concern identified by other States; facilities identified through satellite images as having been modified or constructed since 1998; and other inspection leads identified independently by the IAEA. In parallel with these inspection activities, the IAEA has been conducting an exhaustive analysis of supporting information obtained from various sources.”

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

  11. “The bulk of these inspections have taken place at State-run or private industrial facilities, research centres and universities - either at locations where Iraq's significant technical capabilities were known to have existed in the past, or at new locations suggested by remote monitoring and analysis. All inspection activities have been carried out without prior notification to Iraq, except where notification was needed to ensure the availability of required support. IAEA inspectors have taken - and will continue to take - full advantage of the inspection authority granted by resolution 1441 (2002). In doing so, the inspectors have been instructed to make every effort to conduct their activities with appropriate professionalism and sensitivity.”

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

  12. “Against this backdrop, when Iraq agreed last September to reopen its doors to inspection, and following the subsequent adoption by the Security Council of resolution 1441 (2002), which strengthened the IAEA's authority and the inspection process, the first goal of our inspection activities was reconnaissance. In this phase, we sought to re-establish rapidly our knowledge base of Iraq's nuclear capabilities, to ensure that key facilities had not been reopened, to verify the location of nuclear material and relevant non-nuclear material, and to identify and begin interviewing key Iraqi personnel. Over these first two months of inspection, we have made good progress in our knowledge of Iraq's nuclear capabilities, with a total of 139 inspections at some 106 locations to date.”

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

  13. “By December 1998, when the inspections were brought to a halt with a military strike imminent, we were confident that we had not missed any significant components of Iraq's nuclear programme. While we did not claim absolute certainty, our conclusion at that time was that we had neutralized Iraq's nuclear-weapon programme and that there were no indications that Iraq retained any physical capability to produce weapon-usable nuclear material. During the intervening four years of our absence from Iraq, we continued our analytical work to the best of our ability, using satellite imagery and other information. But no remote analysis can replace on-site inspection, and we were therefore not able to reach any conclusions about Iraq's compliance with its Security Council obligations in the nuclear field after December 1998.”

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

  14. “To understand the approach of IAEA inspections over the past two months, it is important first to recall what was accomplished during our inspections from 1991 to 1998, in fulfilment of our Security Council mandate to eliminate Iraq's nuclear-weapon programme. In September 1991, the IAEA seized documents in Iraq that demonstrated the extent of its nuclear-weapon programme. By the end of 1992, we had largely destroyed, removed or rendered harmless all Iraqi facilities and equipment relevant to nuclear- weapon production. We confiscated Iraq's nuclear- weapon-usable material - highly enriched uranium and plutonium - and by early 1994 we had removed it from the country.”

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

  15. “Mr. ElBaradei: For the past 60 days, the inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have been engaged in the process of verifying the existence or absence of a nuclear-weapon programme in Iraq. Today, pursuant to paragraph 5 of resolution 1441 (2002), I have submitted to the President of the Security Council an update report on our progress since we resumed our nuclear-verification activities in Iraq - in terms of the approach we have adopted, the tools we have used, the specific results achieved, the degree of cooperation we have received, and, finally, our view on how we should proceed. Copies of the report are available in this Chamber. Let me in this statement outline the key aspects of this report.”

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