The Report
of the Iraq Inquiry
had been
suspended and those countries which had launched those strikes
“should now
show flexibility”.
812.
Resolution
1284, adopted on 17 December, welcomed the reports of the
three
panels
chaired by Mr Amorim, which had been subject to “comprehensive
consideration”
by the
Council, and stressed the “importance of a comprehensive approach
to the full
implementation
of all relevant Security Council resolutions … and the need for
Iraqi
compliance
with those resolutions”.317
813.
The resolution
also acknowledged the “progress made by Iraq towards
compliance
with the
provisions of resolution 687”, but noted that “as a result of its
failure to
implement
the relevant Council resolutions fully, the conditions do not exist
which
would
enable the Council to take a decision … to lift the prohibitions
referred to in
that resolution”.
814.
The resolution
comprised four sections: disarmament; repatriation of Kuwaiti
and
third-country
nationals and property; the humanitarian situation; and the
arrangements
for
considering the suspension and lifting of sanctions.
815.
The provisions
on disarmament included that the Security Council:
•
decided to
replace UNSCOM with the United Nations Monitoring,
Verification
and
Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), which would operate as the
Amorim
panel
recommended, to provide “a reinforced system of ongoing monitoring
and
verification,
which will implement the plan approved by the Council in
resolution
715 (1991)
and address unresolved disarmament issues”;
•
reaffirmed
the role of the IAEA;
•
reaffimed
the provisions of relevant resolutions requiring Iraq’s compliance
and
affirmed
that Iraq’s obligations to co-operate with the Special Commission
would
apply in
respect of UNMOVIC;
•
decided “in
particular” that Iraq should “allow UNMOVIC teams
immediate,
unconditional
and unrestricted access” to all sites or facilities it wished to
inspect
and to all
individuals under the authority of the Iraqi Government it wished
to
interview;
•
requested
the Secretary-General to appoint an Executive Chairman and,
in
consultation
with him and Council members, to appoint “suitably
qualified
experts as
a College of Commissioners for UNMOVIC” which would
“meet
regularly
to review the implementation” of the resolution and other
relevant
resolutions,
and “provide advice and guidance to the Executive
Chairman,
including
on significant policy decisions and on written reports to be
submitted to
the Council
through the Secretary-General”;
317
UN Security
Council resolution 1284 (1999).
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