UK proposes 17 March deadline for Iraq to comply with UN disarmament demands
Iraq-UK, Politics, 3/8/2003

The United Kingdom, along with Spain and the United States, yesterday introduced a revised draft of a resolution that presents Iraq with a 17 March deadline to cooperate fully with Security Council demands to rid itself of weapons of mass destruction.

According to the draft, which was announced by UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw during the Council's ministerial-level meeting on Iraq, the Council would decide that Iraq will have "failed to take the final opportunity afforded by resolution 1441" unless it concludes that Baghdad has demonstrated "full, unconditional, immediate and active cooperation" in accordance with its disarmament obligations.

The text also calls for Iraq to yield possession to the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of "all weapons, weapon delivery and support systems and structures," prohibited by previous Council resolutions, and all information regarding prior destruction of such items.

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