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Atlantic Council (blog)
February 14, 2018
The Atlantic Council's Future of Iran Initiative invites you to a panel discussion on Iran's missile program, its role in Iranian defense strategy and as a source of tension in the region and beyond. While the primary threat posed by the program stems from its potential connection to Iran's nuclear program, Iran's ...
Kurdistan24
February 5, 2018
Instead, Moscow succeeded in winning approval for a much weaker inspection mechanism: United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), which was created in 1999. UNMOVIC was much weaker than UNSCOM. For three years, its staff remained in New York—collecting their salaries.
LobeLog
August 2, 2017
On 7 March 2003, Hans Blix, head of the UN Special Commission on Iraq (UNMOVIC), and Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported to the Security Council that they had found no active programs for nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and that ...
Salon
December 4, 2016
Hans Blix of the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq (UNMOVIC) said no stockpiles or active programs had been found, but it had not yet been possible to document destruction of all the weapons known to have been produced prior to the 1991 Gulf War. Blitz predicted that months but not years, would be ...
BBC News
July 7, 2016
"In his advice of 7 March, Lord Goldsmith had said that the views of (weapons inspectors) UNMOVIC and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would be highly significant in demonstrating hard evidence of non-compliance and non-cooperation. In the exchange of letters on 14 and 15 March ...
London Review of Books
June 19, 2015
Unmovic, the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, was created by the UN Security Council in December 1999. It was designed to be different from its predecessor, staffed by employees paid by, and ostensibly loyal to, the UN; Unscom had used 'experts on mission' loaned ...
BBC News
November 12, 2007
But this isn't any office - it is the home of Unmovic, the UN weapons inspectors in Iraq. Or, rather, the former UN weapons inspectors in Iraq. They are packing up and preparing to disappear after their mandate was terminated by the UN Security Council earlier this year. Working out what to do with the ...
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The Secretary-General of the United Nations appointed Dr. Hans Blix of Sweden to be the Commission’s Executive Chairman. In addition, the Secretary-General appointed 16 individuals to serve on the College of Commissioners of UNMOVIC which provides advice and guidance to the Chairman in the execution of his duties. In conformity with the Charter of the United Nations, the Commission’s staff are selected on the basis of securing the highest standard of efficiency, competence and integrity, taking into consideration the importance of recruiting staff on as wide a geographical basis as possible. The Commission’s staff include weapons specialists, analysts, scientists, engineers and operational planners.
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