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UNSCOM

United States of America · Warfare / United Nations. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

16Records
1991–1999Date range
3Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1991

George Herbert Walker Bush1991

Warfare / United Nations

United Nations Security Council Resolution 699 was passed in 1991, declaring that Iraq was responsible for all funding of UNSCOM's inspections in Iraq

1992

George Herbert Walker Bush1992

Warfare / United Nations

Iraq by and large refused to cooperate with UNSCOM and its inspections as mandated by UN SC Res.

George Herbert Walker Bush1992

Warfare / United Nations

The record states that 687 until June 1992, ten months after deadline, at which time the Iraqi Government submitted "full, final and complete reports" on all of its weapons of mass destruction programs.

George Herbert Walker Bush1992

Warfare / United Nations

These reports, however, were found to be incomplete and deficient, and at the same time UN inspectors were subjected to harassment and threats on the part of the Iraqi regime.

1996

William Jefferson Bill Clinton1996

Dayton · Warfare / United Nations

This agreement also allowed the UN to oversee the use and management of oil revenues, and to see that some of the funds went to pay war reparations and for the work of UNSCOM in Iraq during this period.

William Jefferson Bill Clinton1996

Dayton · Warfare / United Nations

This record states: The Iraqi ruling regime agreed to the terms of United Security Council Resolution 986, an oil-for-supplies agreement in which Iraq was allowed to sell $2 billion worth of oil every six months as a ways to purchase.

William Jefferson Bill Clinton1996

Dayton · Warfare / United Nations

This record states: supplies for its increasingly impoverished and malnourished population.

1998

William Scott Ritter31 August 1998

Warfare / United Nations

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William Scott Ritter31 August 1998

Warfare / United Nations

I think the danger right now is that without effective inspections, without effective monitoring, Iraq can in a very short period of time measure the months, reconstitute chemical biological weapons, long-range ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons, and even certain aspects of their nuclear weaponization

William Scott Ritter31 August 1998

Warfare / United Nations

Iraq today is challenging the special commission to come up with a weapon and say where is the weapon in Iraq, and yet part of their efforts to conceal their capabilities, I believe, have been to disassemble weapons into various components and to hide these

William Scott Ritter31 August 1998

Warfare / United Nations

Ritter said: "Iraq still has proscribed weapons capability. There needs to be a careful distinction here.

William Scott Ritter31 August 1998

Warfare / United Nations

components throughout Iraq.

William Scott Ritter31 August 1998

Warfare / United Nations

program.

1999

William Jefferson Bill ClintonDecember 1999

Warfare / United Nations

The UN Security Council passed Resolution 1284, replacing UNSCOM with the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, also known as UNMOVIC. Four countries – among them Russia, France and China – abstained from voting on Res. 1284, which led the Iraqi regime to reject the resolution because they saw the resolution as a way for the UN to claim Iraq as a "protectorate"

William Scott Ritter1999

Warfare / United Nations

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter later accused some UNSCOM personnel of spying,[32] and also alleged that the purpose of the spying was to target Saddam in the bombing

William Scott Ritter1999

Warfare / United Nations

Says "...Iraq has been disarmed. Iraq today possesses no meaningful weapons of mass destruction capability."

Names involved

George Herbert Walker BushWilliam Jefferson Bill ClintonWilliam Scott Ritter

Provenance

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