Quotes about unscom (8 Quotes)

But, as I understand it, the core (of the inspection team) would still be the technicians and professionals from UNSCOM whose job it is to identify anything relevant to weapons of mass destruction. If that's the way this thing comes out by way of a solution, fine, because the core is still our technical work and our task of disarmament.

The secretary-general has become aware of the fact that UNSCOM directly facilitated the creation of an intelligence collection system for the United States in violation of its mandate,

I would use this opportunity once again to urge President Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi leadership to take the wise decision of resuming cooperation with UNSCOM and the atomic agency,

UNSCOM had a practice of not revealing names of companies of suppliers of equipment to Iraq because they often had the possibility of getting information from these companies, and the best way to get these companies to talk to them was not to publish their names to start with,

And what's different We'll have some diplomatic observers with us to make sure that both sides -- not just UNSCOM, but Iraq, too -- behave in an appropriate manner in these special sites,

The waste will be put into concrete and sand. We will leave that at UNSCOM headquarters because after the waste has been heated with concrete and sand, it becomes completely harmless.

At this stage of political development, we think it is extremely important that Iraq move forward on the substance of it and not -- as I criticized in my statement to the Security Council -- and not simply say that these were issues that UNSCOM dreamt up, that these were so-called issues of marginal importance,

There were a lot of open questions at the end of 1998, which were registered by UNSCOM the U.N. Special Commission and also by the air-marine report. ... And these have not been answered by evidence in the new declaration. And this we are pointing out. We would need -- the absence of that evidence means, of course, that one cannot have confidence that there do not remain weapons of mass destruction.