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IAEA inspections and Iraq's nuclear capabilities (1992)

AuteurIAEA
Datumapril 1992
Classificatie 5.15.0.00/02 (IRAK)
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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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