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* Questions presented by Iraq to the Security Council
Baghdad 25, July 2002
Questions presented by Iraq's Foreign Minister to the UN Secretary
General in the session of talks on March 7, 2002 and demanded the
Security Council answer on them.
1 - What is your vision and assessment to what we have reached after
seven years and seven months of Iraq's cooperation with the
Special Committee and the International Agency of Atomic Energy?
How would this cooperation be used to build on?
2 - If one or two of the Security Council permanent members say that
they are not assured of disarmament, we want to know what do
they want to be assured of? What do they search for? What is the
necessary time to complete this? We also ought to be satisfied,
not only the Security Council, in order to go on cooperating
with it. If they have any doubt about a certain site or activity,
we ought to know about it.
3 - How do you explain a stance of a permanent member in the Security
Council which officially calls to invade Iraq and impose an agent
regime on its people by force in a clear violation of the Security
Council resolutions themselves which clearly state to respect
Iraq's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity and
the rules of the international law and the UN Charter. At the
same time, it demands Iraq implementing the Security Council
resolutions.
4 - Is the Security Council seriously stick on its mandate and the
resolutions which it issued, in particular resolution 687 on
April 3, 1991, and the fair, legal reading for this Resolution?
The Security Council is subject to the US explanation of the
resolutions and to what it (the US) is issuing of unilateral
resolutions concerning Iraq.
5 - How could normal relation between Iraq and the Security Council
be achieved under the current, declared US policy, seeking to
invade Iraq and change by force the patriotic political regime
in it?
6 - The United States continuously declares that the economic
sanctions imposed on Iraq will remain as long as the patriotic
political regime in Iraq stays, what is the Security Council
stance over this policy, which violates the relevant Security
Council resolutions?
7 - What are the guarantees that the United Nations could offer to
prevent interference between Iraq's relation with the United
Nations and the political, aggressive US goals?
8 - The concept of synchronization in implementing the reciprocal
obligations stated in the Security Council resolutions related
to Iraq is necessary and essential to rebuild confidence between
Iraq and the Security Council. What are your speculations on
the obligations related to Iraq's rights, foremost the lifting
of the sanctions, respect of Iraq's sovereignty, independence
and territorial integrity and make the Mid-East region free of
weapons of mass destruction. Those obligations, the Security
Council ought to implement, to open a new page of cooperation
between Iraq and the United Nations? How could we set up a
mechanism that secures synchronizing the implementation of two
sides' obligations?
9 - Security Council resolutions and not to demand the same from
a permanent member in the Security Council which continues
violating those resolutions, especially those related to
respecting Iraq's sovereignty, independence and territorial
integrity, and officially vows that its policy aims to invade
the Republic of Iraq and impose an agent government on its
people?
10 - After disclosure of the spying activities of former UNSCOM
inspectors and the International Agency of Atomic Energy
according to the confessions made by some of the special
committee members and statements issued by US sources and
some Security Council permanent members and what was acknowledged
by the General Secretariat. Is it fair that inspectors return
to Iraq who could be used to spy against Iraq and its leadership
and to update information about Iraq's vital economic
installations to bomb them in a coming aggression?
11 - Could the United Nations secure that those coming to Iraq are
not spies and will not commit spying activities?
12 - Could the UN guarantee elimination of the two no-fly zones? Could
the UN guarantee the upcoming inspection would not be a prelude
for an aggression on Iraq as in 1998? Could the UN guarantee that
the U.S. would not attack Iraq during the inspecting operations
like wise along the seven years and a half from may 1991 to
December 1998.
13 - What is the secretary general view about the time required for
the inspection teams that could make them sure that Iraq does
not have weapons of mass destruction and inform the Security
Council on this fact? What are methods of which the UN thinks
of using in this aspect and how far its coincidence with related
international accords?
14 - How would inspectors of whom states are declaring the bids
officially to threaten Iraq's national security and invade
it apply international unbiased mandate on Iraq or respect
the Security Council resolutions and their duties in virtue
of the charter? The presence of US and British inspectors
at the special committee and international agency for atomic
energy helped in collecting intelligence data and specify
locations that were targeted in their aggression. All location
which had been visited by the inspections teams were exposed
in 1998 aggression including the presidential sites despite
the inspectors have affirmed being clear from weapons of mass
destruction. Besides, the American and British have bombed all
the industrial sites according to inspectors' data while they
were under continuous monitoring.
15 - What is the secretary general's view over structure of UNIMOVIC?
And is it plausible to approve some individuals who had violated
their unbiased mandate and duties in addition to reputation of
their organization (the UN) when they acted espionage on Iraq?
16 - What is the mandate of UNIMOVIC? The UN statement and documents
released up to now are ambiguous? How far is the authority of
its head? And what is the delegates' committee authority?
What is the form of the secretary general supervision on its
functioning. And what are the guarantees that the committee
and its chief would not abuse their authority? What are the
guarantees that this committee would not violate Iraq's
sovereign rights?
17 - Dropping 120,000 tones of bombs, including 800 tones of depleted
uranium, on Iraq during 1991 aggression and the aggressions that
followed, in addition to the all- out, 12-years blockade have
led to a semi- demolition of economic, health, education and
service infrastructure. Iraq needs to utilize all its resources
when sanctions are lifted to rebuild its basic installations.
The question of compensations with their high rate stands as
a big obstacle to this. What does the secretary general see to
correct this situation? Does he intend to send expert teams to
Iraq to discuss the question of rebuilding and its costs and
prepare the requirements to urge the Security Council to
reconsider the question of compensations?
18 - The blockade and the military aggressions launched by the United
States and Britain against Iraq since 1991 have caused huge
material and human losses in Iraq. What is the possibilities
of reconsidering, within the comprehensive solution based
on justice, for compensating Iraq for human material and
psychological damages and losses that its people were suffering
from on the same base adopted by the security council on
compensation?
19 - Iraq has a firm right of self-defense under article 15 of the
charter, though the security council had to abided with its
commitments and respecting Iraq's sovereignty and territories
integrity which encouraging regional and none- regional parties
to violate Iraq's national security. How do you look at the
question of Iraq's right of self-defense and the use of what
the international law and charter secures it of the right to
possess the defense weapons?
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