UN intends to close arms inspection unit for Iraq

[maddezmom]

UN intends to close arms inspection unit for Iraq
07 Mar 2007 20:58:47 GMT
Source: Reuters

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By Evelyn Leopold

UNITED NATIONS, March 7 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council moved on Wednesday to shut down its weapons inspection commission for Iraq but has not decided yet how to preserve the extensive experience of its staff and database.

South Africa's U.N. ambassador, Dumisani Kumalo, the current council president said the United States, Britain and Iraq were drawing up a resolution, which diplomats expect this month, that would close the commission charged with dismantling Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

"There was consensus in the council that the work of the mandate must be terminated and the file must be closed," Kumalo told reporters. But he said "the council would like to further discuss how to retain the expertise and especially the human expertise of the people that have worked in the last four years in this area of weapons of mass destruction."

The staff of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Agency, known as UNMOVIC, had not been allowed to return to Iraq by the United States since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.

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[RaleighNCDUer]

1. Well, FINALLY!

NOW we can go ahead and find those WMDs that Saddam was hiding.

[Paulie]

2. The US is preventing the inspectors from doing their job????

Outrage!!! Let the inspectors in, or sanctions should be put on the regime!!!! :sarcasm: