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United Nations Special Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) was a United Nations organisation performing arms inspections in Iraq after the Gulf War. (Redirected from United Nations Special Commission on Iraq) The successor of UNSCOM is the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Nations_Special_Commission_on_Iraq   (104 words)

Washingtonpost.com: Iraq Special Report United Nations inspectors in Iraq last fall uncovered what they considered highly unsettling evidence of a 1995 agreement by the Russian government to sell Iraq sophisticated fermentation equipment that could be used to develop biological weapons, according to sources. Iraq has accused American members of the U.N. inspection teams of spying for the United States, a charge denied by both the United Nations and the Clinton administration. Also, a detailed probe by the commission of Iraq's 1995 purchase of missile gyroscopes from Russia, in violation of U.N. sanctions, has produced evidence that well-established Russian defense companies with major links to the government were involved in that transaction -- not just corrupt middlemen or brokers, as Moscow contended. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/stories/iraq021298.htm   (1748 words)

Nuclear capabilities of Iraq - Introduction Iraq officially responded to the Board's action in a letter to the United Nations Secretary General on 23 July 1991 from its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. IAEA teams have been investigating Iraq's nuclear capabilities since May 1991 and following the Gulf War under terms of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 directed at eliminating Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and the means to produce and use them. Results reported to the IAEA Board and to the United Nations show a detailed, though not yet complete, picture of Iraq's nuclear programme in the view of inspectors. www.iaea.org /Publications/Booklets/Iraq/iraqintro.html   (888 words)

02-09-10kay.html Indeed, the start of any sensible long-term approach to Iraq is to understand why the United Nations arms inspections slid into irrelevance and four years ago came to and end. Iraq is of a class of problems where all the easy answers seem to have been in the past and all the low risk, near terms options are not answers. Iraq's pre-war nuclear accomplishments have ensured that if it can acquire fissionable nuclear material from any outside source it will be able to fabricate at least a crude, improvised nuclear device in months, not years. www.house.gov /hasc/openingstatementsandpressreleases/107thcongress/02-09-10kay.html   (2658 words)

- Welcome to the Tablet The United Nations, in 1947, introduced the term "weapons of mass destruction" to differentiate nuclear, chemical, biological and radiological weapons from conventional weapons, so as to meet Article 26 of the United Nations Charter which requires plans for a "system for the regulation of armaments". Iraq has worked on all of them, but it is the chemical and biological ones which are the chief concern in the present crisis. Iraq accepted terms which required the elimination of all of its chemical and biological weapons, as well as all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities for them. www.thetablet.co.uk /cgi-bin/register.cgi/tablet-00153   (1622 words)

Document From 1997 until its demise in 1999, Richard Butler was executive chairman of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM). Scott Ritter, the US military officer who led UNSCOM's attempts to unravel Iraq's weapon-concealment mechanism, charged on his dramatic resignation that Butler took directions from the United States rather than from the United Nations and that Butler also allowed UNSCOM to be a conduit for US intelligence collection in Iraq. It is, moreover, always honest, even when Butler has to tell a story damaging to himself-- as is the case when he is ambushed by the Russian ambassador to the United Nations or when his staff's judgment turns out to have been better than his own. www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/buttxx.htm   (803 words)

Iraq blocking UN weapons teams THE chief United Nations weapons inspector told the Security Council yesterday that UN monitors in Iraq have been denied access to sites previously approved by Baghdad following Iraq's decision to freeze co-operation with inspectors on Aug 5. Permanent Mission of Iraq to the United Nations He said that Iraq claimed that the unit was military "and that it was not, according to Iraq, within the scope of monitoring". news.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/09/04/wirq04.html   (346 words)

United Nations Special Commission on Iraq United States assistance to the United Nations and UNSCOM, through OSIA and other federal components, helps to implement UN Security Council Resolutions, promote U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The UN requested cooperative action from member nations in supporitng the resolution and on May 17, 1991, the U.S. Secretary of State responded with a determination that it was consistent with the national interest to comply with the request. The five missions are to ensure the destruction of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, confirm the destruction of ballistic missiles, verify the control and removal of nuclear materials, conduct long-term monitoring of Iraqi compliance and provide operations support. www.milnet.com /pentagon/centcom/iraq/unscom.htm   (871 words)

UNSCOM MANDATE Following the establishment of the Commission as a subsidiary organ of the Security Council, the Office of the Executive Chairman of the Special Commission - a full-time office to assist the Chairman in the exercise of his functions - was set up at United Nations Headquarters in New York, with offices in Bahrain and Baghdad. The Commission and the IAEA presented a draft concept paper to the Sanctions Committee in May 1994 containing a proposal for a system of notification by both Iraq and the exporting country of dual-purpose items to be exported to Iraq. The Chairman of the Commission wrote to the members of the Council and former major suppliers to Iraq noting that informal contacts with a number of States appeared to indicate that they were, or would shortly be, in a position to provide the necessary notifications. www.un.org /Depts/unscom/unscom.htm   (3063 words)

George Bush Presidential Library and Museum Likewise, the United States and its allies continue to press the Government of Iraq to return to Kuwait all property and equipment removed from Kuwait by Iraq. Through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the United States, Kuwait, and our allies continue to press the Government of Iraq to comply with its obligations under Security Council resolutions to return all detained Kuwaiti and third-country nationals. Iraq has also refused to utilize the opportunity under Resolutions 706 and 712 to sell.6 billion in oil, most of the proceeds from which could be used by Iraq to purchase foodstuffs, medicines, materials, and supplies for essential civilian needs of its civilian population. bushlibrary.tamu.edu /research/papers/1992/92071602.html   (1260 words)

Online NewsHour: Intervention In Iraq? Inspecting Iraq PBS UNSCOM reported that Iraq had offered false documents about their arsenal, destroyed fewer weapons than they claimed and hid weapons at "presidential sites" that were off-limits to inspectors. In 1995, Iraq's former Director of Military Industrial Organization, Hussein Kamel — who is also Saddam Hussein's son-in-law — defected with his family to Jordan and confirmed Iraq's development of a biological weapons program. It was the latest in a series of chess moves between the U.N., the U.S. and the Iraqi government in the continuing fight to rid the Gulf War state of weapons on mass destruction [WMD]. www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/iraq/un_inspections.html   (672 words)

Russia, France Offer Gauge for Iraq Policy - Security Council - Global Policy Forum If the two, members of the United Nations Security Council, deplore UN sanctions and help Baghdad buy more time in its efforts to restrict the movement of weapons inspectors or to keep them away entirely, the administration will know that diplomatic efforts will be unavailing. Since the beginning of the decade-long struggle between the United States and Iraq, France and Russia have been the leading powers sympathetic to Saddam Hussein. The two nations, of course, have frequently been irritants, or worse, to the English-speaking nations. www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/iraq/2002/0312france.htm   (868 words)

NTI: Country Overviews: Iraq: Missile Chronology UNSCOM determines that accounting for seven indigenously produced missiles is one of the priority objectives for the Commission as this may involve operational missiles produced indigenously in Iraq. UNSCOM asks Iraq to provide verifiable physical evidence of the unilateral destruction of combustion chamber/nozzle assemblies for such missiles, along with documentary evidence that will permit a full accounting of all indigenously produced major missile parts and the verification of their unilateral destruction. Iraq provides a new declaration concerning its proscribed weapons in an attempt to eliminate uncertainties about their movement and concealment prior to their destruction. www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/Iraq/Missile/3879_4037.html   (4293 words)

Iraq - USIA News Report U.N. (Significant data unearthed on Iraqi weapons) (600) By Berta Gomez USIA Staff Writer Washington -- The United Nations Special Commission on Iraq, established after the Persian Gulf war to locate and oversee the destruction of all Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, has made significant progress despite the Baghdad government's efforts to impede its work. Title: "UN Inspections in Iraq Said Largely Successful." The UN Special Commission on Iraq, established after the Persian Gulf war to locate and oversee the destruction of all Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, has made significant progress despite the Baghdad government's efforts to impede its work. She noted that the inspectors saw "no evidence" of biological "weaponization" in Iraq, although "it was very, very clear that they wanted a biological weapons program." While basic biological weapons research is fairly straightforward, the move to weaponization is extremely difficult, and Iraq had definitely not progressed that far, Jansen explained. www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/1992/920820-239810.htm   (693 words)

CNS - Ambassador Ekéus Speaks at MIIS on Detecting WMD in Iraq He served as Executive Director of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) from 1991 to 1997 and Sweden's Ambassador to the United States from 1997 to 2000. Ambassador Rolf Ekéus, the first Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM), recently addressed the Monterey Institute of International Studies regarding the methods used to detect and assess weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq. On November 14, 2003 in Irvine Auditorium, Ekéus, a former Swedish ambassador to the United States, also discussed the lessons that emerged from 12 years of international efforts to uncover Iraq's weapon programs. cns.miis.edu /cns/media/1103ekeus.htm   (858 words)

CNS Special Collection on the Iraq Crisis - One Doable Goal: Defanging Saddam Diplomats from several countries are seeking to avert a military confrontation between the United States and Iraq over the expulsion of Americans from weapons inspection teams fielded by the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq. Instead, the United States should focus its diplomatic efforts on the more narrow goal of ensuring that U.N. inspection teams complete their vital work of eliminating Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Finally, if Iraq fails to live up to its side of the bargain, the likelihood of a multilateral military response would be greater. cns.miis.edu /research/iraq/tuckered.htm   (710 words)

About DTRA: Historical Documents: United Nations Special Commission on Iraq On April 3, 1991, following the decisive defeat of Iraq in the Persian Gulf War, the United Nations (U.N.) Security Council adopted Resolution 687, which set specific terms for the Gulf War cease-fire. UNSCOM's mission is to ensure the destruction of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, confirm the destruction of ballistic missiles, assist the International Atomic Energy Agency in the control and removal of nuclear materials, assure long-term monitoring of Iraqi compliance, and provide operations support. Resolution 687 required Iraq to declare and destroy its nuclear capabilities, chemical and biological weapons, and ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 kilometers. www.dtra.mil /about/media/historical_documents/historical_missions/UN_iraq.cfm   (283 words)

USIS Washington File: TEXT: UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON IRAQI SANCTIONS On August 5 Iraq announced it was "totally suspending" cooperation with the United Nations Special Commission in Iraq (UNSCOM) and with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), saying that its weapons files should be closed and intrusive inspections ended. Recalling the letter from the Executive chairman of the Special Commission to the President of the Security Council of 12 August 1998 (S/1998/767), which reported to the Council that Iraq had halted all disarmament activities of the Special Commission and placed limitations on the rights of the Commission to conduct its monitoring operations, Acting under Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations, usembassy-australia.state.gov /hyper/WF980910/epf411.htm   (667 words)

Christian Century: Sanctions and suffering. may be more effective is curtailing Saddam Hussein's weapons program than a direct military strike by the U.S. - the United Nations Special Commission onf Iraq UNSCOM - Brief Article In its seven years of operation; the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) has reportedly destroyed over 40,000 chemical weapons, 700 tons of chemical weapons agents, 48 missiles and 30 warheads. Iraq has confessed to manufacturing at least 260 liters of the stuff in the period before the Persian Gulf war, and over 2,000 gallons of the anthrax bacterium, which may be even more dangerous. In the case of Iraq, Whitmore helpfully proposes that the UN develop more carefully targeted and flexible sanctions that will deny Hussein military hardware but allow for rebuilding the Iraqi economy and save many innocent people from avoidable suffering. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_33_115/ai_53390003   (754 words)

E. United Nations Special Commission on Iraq Inspections: 1991-1992 There were also reports of damage by the United Nations Special Commission inspection team that visited a different location [referring to Khamisiyah] in the general vicinity of An Nasiriyah several months after the cessation of hostilities. During the inspection, Iraq repeated its claim that Coalition forces had caused all the damage to the area. destroy Iraq’s surviving chemical and biological weapons and ballistic missiles, have the weapons moved to an Iraq destruction facility, or destroy the weapons in place. www.gulflink.osd.mil /khamisiyah_ii/khamisiyah_ii_s05.htm   (3028 words)

Ritter, Former Inspector, Speaks at MIT Scott Ritter, the former chief weapons inspector of the United Nations Special Commission in Iraq, spoke last night to a packed audience at the MIT Technology and Culture Forum and called on the United States to seek the return of weapons inspectors instead of the overthrow of Iraq’s government. He stressed that Iraq is a country of more than 20 million people, and the thinking that removing Hussein will revolutionize the country is unrealistic, he said. Weapons left behind by the inspectors in 1998, and Iraqi programs in the interim, are unlikely to cause concern, Ritter said, citing the decay of several types of biological agents and the difficulty of evading detection while obtaining fissionable material to build a nuclear bomb. www-tech.mit.edu /V122/N43/43ritter.43n.html   (526 words)

wh960708.txt The United States has long supported implementation of Resolution 986 to provide the Iraqi people the relief that Saddam refused to provide. The United States, together with international and humanitarian relief organizations, continues to provide humanitarian assistance to the people of northern Iraq. Iraq continues to stall and obfuscate rather than work in good faith toward accounting for the hundreds of Kuwaitis and third-country nationals who disappeared at the hands of Iraqi authorities during the occupation. www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/intl/iraq/wh960708.txt   (1472 words)

United Nations - Iraq: Call for Independent Inspection Team The member states of the United Nations bear a special collective responsibility in this matter because the people of Iraq has been subjected, in the name of the United Nations, to a hitherto unknown collective punishment depriving it of its most basic human rights. The formation of such a team should be entrusted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations because he alone, on the basis of his international status defined in Art. It is a commonly accepted principle that investigations such as those on the issue of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction have to be carried out by experts who are completely independent and free from any political pressure and who do not collaborate with whichever secret agency of a UN member state. i-p-o.org /IIIT.htm   (519 words)

World Affairs: UNSCOM in the Time of Cholera - Brief Article The United Nations Special Commission on Iraq, UNSCOM, was established in April 1991 by UN Security Council Resolution 687 to oversee and verify Iraq's destruction of its weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Iraq claimed that the shortfall could be accounted for by the fact that a portion of the debris had been melted down and turned into ingots. Expecting UNSCOM to last only a few months, Iraq determined that it would implement a concealment policy based on one that had been effective during earlier International Atomic Energy Agency inspections, which had failed to uncover Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2393/is_2_163/ai_67046850   (1070 words)

Wash. Instit.: Disarming Iraq w/ Scott Ritter - 3-31-99 Last December's Operation Desert Fox resulted in the death of the UN Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM). Iraq has maintained components of a nuclear bomb, and it could receive fissile material to enable it to build a nuclear weapon. The sanctions against Iraq were a horrible necessity when UNSCR 687 was actively implemented by an UNSCOM that was focused on issues of disarmament. www.iraqwatch.org /perspectives/winep-PolicyWatch-377-3-31-99.htm   (1150 words)

Convocations, Ritter/Iraq Scott Ritter, a former Chief Weapons Inspector for the United Nations Special Commission in Iraq, has been to Iraq and seen both sides of the debate. Or have United Nations sanctions against the government of Iraq resulted in the meaningful deaths of thousands of peaceful families? After his military experience, Ritter joined the United Nations weapons inspection team. www.suu.edu /ad/pr/news/Ritter9-19.htm   (315 words)

Cornell News: Iraq's biological weapons ITHACA, N.Y. -- David Kelly, an expert on biological warfare with UNSCOM, the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq, will discuss Iraq's biological weapons program at the auditorium in the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) on the Cornell University campus Monday, March 29, at 12:15 p.m. As senior adviser to UNSCOM, established by the U.N. Security Council in April 1991 to oversee the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, he led the first biological warfare inspection in Iraq in August 1991. He has visited Iraq 37 times and has participated in all of UNSCOM's key inspections and technical discussions regarding Iraq's biological weapons. www.news.cornell.edu /releases/March99/Iraq.kelly.deb.html   (250 words)

NTI: Board of Directors: Ambassador Rolf Ekeus He has filled a number of diplomatic posts, including Swedish ambassador to the United States and head of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq. He was a member of the Advisory Board on Disarmament of the Secretary General of the United Nations; the Canberra Commission on Nuclear Weapons and the Tokyo Forum on Disarmament. In the summer of 2001, Ambassador Ekeus was appointed high commissioner on national minorities by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). www.nti.org /b_aboutnti/b1f.html   (248 words)

BBC News MIDDLE EAST Iraq "rebuilding its war machine" The former head of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq, Richard Butler, says Baghdad is rebuilding its chemical, biological and missile programmes. He told a United States congressional committee that the Iraqi leadership had also recalled its nuclear weapons design team. Mr Butler, who left the UN last year and is now an outspoken critic of its Iraq policy, said sanctions were not working and the security council had failed to keep President Saddam in check. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/943601.stm   (157 words)

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