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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Text summation of UN resolution 1441

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in list: 1998 Clinton's WMD and "Iraqi Liberation Act" 1998

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- That Iraq was in material breach of the ceasefire terms presented under the terms of Resolution 687. Iraq's breaches related not only to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), but also the known construction of prohibited types of missiles, the purchase and import of prohibited armaments, and the continuing refusal of Iraq to compensate Kuwait for the widespread looting conducted by its troops in 1991.
- That "...false statements or omissions in the declarations submitted by Iraq pursuant to this resolution and failure by Iraq at any time to comply with, and cooperate fully in the implementation of, this resolution shall constitute a further material breach of Iraq’s obligations".
"In violation of Security Council Resolution 1373, Iraq support terrorist organizations that direct violence against Iran, Israel, and Western governments....And al-Qaida terrorists escaped from Afghanistan are known to be in Iraq."
three permanent members (with veto power) of the Council were known to have misgivings about an invasion of Iraq: Russia, People's Republic of China, and France.
Iraq used proceeds from the "oil for food" U.N. program to purchase weapons rather than food for its people.
will return to the Council for discussion as required in paragraph 12. We would expect the Security Council then to meet its responsibilities.^[3]
Iraq failed to comply with the terms of the Resolution,
Regrettably, much in these declarations proved inaccurate or incomplete or was unsupported or contradicted by evidence. In such cases, no confidence can arise that proscribed programmes or items have been eliminated."
Iraq continued to fail to account for substantial chemical and biological stockpiles which UNMOVIC inspectors had confirmed as existing as late as 1998
Iraq claimed that it had disposed of its anthrax stockpiles at a specific site, but UNMOVIC found this impossible to confirm since Iraq had not allowed the destruction to be witnessed by inspectors as required by the pertinent Resolutions. Chemical testing done at the site was unable to show that any anthrax had been destroyed there.
"Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance -- not even today -- of the disarmament, which was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace."
Blix went on to state that the Iraqi regime had allegedly misplaced "1,000 tonnes" of VX nerve agent -- one of the most toxic ever developed.[6]
At this point, the US Administration asserted that Iraq remained in material breach of the UN Resolutions, and that, under 1441, this meant the Security Council had to convene
Before the meeting took place, French president Jacques Chirac declared on March 10 that France would veto any resolution which would automatically lead to war.
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- Chirac's veto on any sanction or resolution would have allowed another 3,500,000 Iraqis to die
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Iraq Crisis, 2002–2003 — Infoplease.com

TimeLine for UN resolutions generated to Iraq. 2003 undeclared chemical weapons discovered.

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Nuclear agency accuses Iran of willful lack of cooperation

Iran is again defying the UN inspectors from the IAEA

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Dick Cheney Visits Afghanistan - New York Times

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Text of President Bushes Speech to the U.N.announcing war on terrorism

Tags: address, bush, iraq, peace, prisoners, radical, resolution, sharia, threat, un, violations on 2008-03-20 -All Annotations (1) -About

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Just read President Bushe's address to the UN
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he founding members resolved that the peace of the world must never
again be destroyed by the will and wickedness of any man. We created the United
Nations Security Council, so that, unlike the League of Nations, our
deliberations would be more than talk, our resolutions would be more than
wishes. After generations of deceitful dictators and broken treaties and
squandered lives, we dedicated ourselves to standards of human dignity shared by
all, and to a system of security defended by all.
Our common security is challenged by regional conflicts -- ethnic and
religious strife that is ancient, but not inevitable. In the Middle East, there
can be no peace for either side without freedom for both sides
Had Saddam Hussein been appeased instead of stopped, he would
have endangered the peace and stability of the world. Yet this aggression was
stopped -- by the might of coalition forces and the will of the United Nations.

To suspend hostilities, to spare himself, Iraq's dictator accepted a series
of commitments. The terms were clear, to him and to all. And he agreed to
prove he is complying with every one of those obligations.

He has proven instead only his contempt for the United Nations, and for all
his pledges. By breaking every pledge -- by his deceptions, and by his
cruelties -- Saddam Hussein has made the case against himself.
n 1991, Security Council Resolution 688 demanded that the Iraqi regime
cease at once the repression of its own people, including the systematic
repression of minorities -- which the Council said, threatened international
peace and security in the region. This demand goes ignored.
Tens of thousands of political opponents and
ordinary citizens have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment,
summary execution, and torture by beating and burning, electric shock,
starvation, mutilation, and rape. Wives are tortured in front of their
husbands, children in the presence of their parents -- and all of these horrors
concealed from the world by the apparatus of a totalitarian state.
In 1993,
Iraq attempted to assassinate the Emir of Kuwait and a former American
President. Iraq's government openly praised the attacks of September the 11th.
And al Qaeda terrorists escaped from Afghanistan and are known to be in Iraq.
U.N. inspectors believe Iraq has produced two to four
times the amount of biological agents it declared,
s we meet today, it's been almost four years since the last U.N.
inspectors set foot in Iraq, four years for the Iraqi regime to plan, and to
build, and to test behind the cloak of secrecy.
Just months after the 1991 cease-fire, the Security Council twice renewed its
demand that the Iraqi regime cooperate fully with inspectors, condemning Iraq's
serious violations of its obligations. The Security Council again renewed that
demand in 1994, and twice more in 1996, deploring Iraq's clear violations of its
obligations. The Security Council renewed its demand three more times in 1997,
citing flagrant violations; and three more times in 1998, calling Iraq's
behavior totally unacceptable. And in 1999, the demand was renewed yet again.