United Nations Security Council

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Excerpt
Excerpt: Introduction and salient points // The present report, which is the thirteentha submitted in accordance with paragraph 12 of Security Council resolution 1284 (1999), covers the activities of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) during the period from 1 March to 31 May 2003. The present introduction highlights some of the events and experience of the Commission. // During the period under review, the Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC briefed the Security Council on 7 March (on the twelfth quarterly report), on 19 March (on the draft work programme required under resolution 1284 (1999)) and on 22 April 2003 (on the Commission’s readiness to return to Iraq to resume inspections). He also maintained his practice of meeting each of the respective Presidents of the Security Council. The Secretary-General and his senior staff were kept informed on a continuing basis of the activities of the Commission.

Table of Contents
Contents Paragraphs Page I. Introduction and salient points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–16 4 II. Inspections in Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17–57 6 A. General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17–20 6 B. Biological inspections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 7 C. Chemical inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22–24 7 D. Missile inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25–28 12 E. Multidisciplinary inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29–32 12 F. General operational issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33–52 13 1. Implementation of the multidisciplinary approach to inspections . . . . . . 33 13 2. Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34–36 13 3. Establishment of a regional office in Mosul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37–39 14 4. Air operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40–43 14 5. Overhead imagery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 15 6. Interviews and lists of Iraqi personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45–52 15 G. Integration of advanced technologies for inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53–57 17 1. Ground-penetrating radar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 17 2. Electromagnetic induction soil change mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 17 3. Computer and server forensics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 17 4. Remote drilling and sampling systems for munitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 17 III. Laboratories and sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58–78 18 A. Chemical laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62–69 18 B. Biological laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70–76 19 C. Analysis at laboratories outside Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77–78 20 IV. Findings through inspection and analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79–112 21 A. R-400 bombs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79–85 21 B. Cluster munitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86–87 22