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UNMOVIC

Sweden · Warfare / United Nations. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1998–2002Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1998

Hans Blix1998

Warfare / United Nations

UNMOVIC supervises the destruction of a small number of empty chemical rocket warheads, 50 liters of mustard gas that had been declared by Iraq and sealed by UNSCOM in 1998

2002

Hans Blix27 January 2002

Warfare / United Nations

Hussein accepts the resolution on November 13 and inspectors returned to Iraq under the direction of UNMOVIC chairman Hans Blix and IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei

Hans BlixSeptember 2002

Warfare / United Nations

UN Resolution 1441 gives Iraq "a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations" and set up inspections by the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Names involved

Hans Blix

Provenance

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