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IAEA inspections and Iraq's nuclear capabilities (1992)
| Author | IAEA |
| Date | April 1992 |
| Classification | 5.15.0.00/02 (IRAQ) |
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Nuclear capabilities of Iraq Introduction For the first time in the history of the safeguards system, a state party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty -Iraq- was found to have violated its safeguards agreement with the IAEA by not declaring and submitting nuclear material activities to the Agency's inspection. IAEA teams have been investigating Iraq's nuclear capabilities since May 1991 and following the Gulf War under terms of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 directed at eliminating Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and the means to produce and use them. The resolution-which deals with ballistic missiles, biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons-expressly requested the IAEA to inspect known or suspected nuclear sites in Iraq; to remove or otherwise take exclusive control of all material and equipment usable for nuclear weapons; and to develop a comprehensive plan for future monitoring and verification of Iraq's nuclear programme. IAEA teams working in co-operation with the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq had completed ten on-site inspections as of February 1992. The IAEA Board of Governors declared Iraq in violation of its safeguards agreement at a special session on 18 July 1991. It strongly condemned the Government of Iraq for not submitting nuclear material and facilities in its clandestine uranium enrichment programme to the IAEA' s inspection, and expressed its grave concern about "evident deception and obstruction of IAEA inspectors", who were denied access several times to sites they wished to inspect. In accordance with its Statute, the IAEA transmitted its conclusions to the United Nations Security Council. Iraq officially responded to the Board's action in a letter to the United Nations Secretary General on 23 July 1991 from its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ahmad Hussein. Criticizing the action as "unfair and unbalanced," he said the IAEA "had rushed to pass judgment" and that Iraq had "fully laid bare its nuclear programme." Results reported to the IAEA Board and to the United Nations show a detailed, though not yet complete, picture of Iraq's nuclear programme in the view of inspectors.
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