9 January 2003January Inspection UpdateHans Blix
Reviews access, interviews and unresolved disarmament questions.
Historical records for Sweden in 2003, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Reviews access, interviews and unresolved disarmament questions.
Briefs the Security Council on the developing inspection process.
Reports Iraq has yet to demonstrate a "genuine acceptance" of United Nations weapons inspections
Says important Iraqi disarmament questions remain unresolved.
Provides the Council's sixty-day update on resumed inspections.
Reports Iraq has yet to demonstrate a "genuine acceptance" of United Nations weapons inspections
Reports Iraq has yet to demonstrate a "genuine acceptance" of United Nations weapons inspections
Hans Blix said in late January 2003 that Iraq had "not genuinely accepted United Nations resolutions demanding that it disarm"
The United Nations weapons inspectors report that they had found no indication that Iraq possessed nuclear weapons or an active program
Reports again to the Security Council on Iraqi cooperation.
Notes improved access while outstanding disarmament issues remain.
Blix claims that "If Iraq had provided the necessary cooperation in 1991, the phase of disarmament -- under resolution 687 -- could have been short and a decade of sanctions could have been avoided"
Supervises the start of destruction of Iraq's Al Samoud 2 missiles.
UNMOVIC identifies the missile system as exceeding the permitted range.
Reports accelerated Iraqi initiatives but continuing unresolved disarmament questions.
Presents UNMOVIC's twelfth quarterly report to the Council.
The document identifies key remaining Iraqi disarmament tasks.
Submits UNMOVIC's draft work programme to the Security Council.
Withdraws UNMOVIC personnel from Iraq before the invasion.
Inspection operations end one day before armed action begins.
Explains remaining inspection tasks despite the withdrawal from Iraq.
Briefs the Security Council on UNMOVIC's draft work programme.
Persson backs Sweden's participation in the treaty enabling the European Union's major 2004 enlargement.
Gives his final Security Council briefing as UNMOVIC chairman.
States inspectors found no evidence of resumed prohibited weapons programmes.
During the Iraq disarmament crisis before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Blix is called back from retirement by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to lead the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission in charge of monitoring Iraq
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