UN discusses end to Iraq weapons inspection team

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The United Nations Security Council discussed the possibility of putting an end to the operations of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) for Iraq, council diplomats said. The commission was set up in 1999 by council resolution 1284.

Following UNSCOM, the commission was charged with continuing its efforts to verify that Iraq no longer has weapons of mass destruction and complies with its obligations not to acquire new arms barred by the Security Council.

"There are discussions about phasing it out. We're not there yet but we're moving in that direction," Anne Patterson said, the number two at the US mission.

"The mandate doesn't need to be renewed. But again we're not there yet, we've been talking to other members, it's just going in that direction."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200506/s1387989.htm

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1. They are there now!

Oh course WMD are there. The US brought them in for their own generals to use. Depleted uranium all over the place to boot!

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2. UN eyes shutting down Iraq arms inspection agency

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N08514887.htm

UNITED NATIONS, June 8 (Reuters) - Support is growing in the U.N. Security Council to shut down the U.N. weapons inspection agency for Iraq, whose experts have been kept out of the country since March 2003, diplomats said on Wednesday.

The United States wanted to end the work by September but there was no consensus during closed-door council discussions.

"I can agree that there is a general perception by the council members that the time to wrap up the body has come. The problem is how to do it, " Russian U.N. Ambassador Andrei Denisov said.

More than two years after the United States led an invasion of Iraq to shut down its biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programs but found none...