United Nations Monitoring

Events (40)

• December 17, 1999: UNMOVIC Replaces UNSCOM; Set Up to Keep Out Western Spies 1999-12-17
• September 16, 2002: Iraq Agrees to Readmit UN Weapons Inspectors; US, Britain Oppose Move 2002-09-16
• September 19, 2002: Blix: UN Inspectors to Enter Iraq by October 15 2002-09-19
• September 24, 2002: Visits to Iraqi Facilities Disprove British Claims of Secret Weapons Sites 2002-09-24
• September 28, 2002: US Presents Harsh Draft UN Resolution; Iraq, Allies Find It Unacceptable 2002-09-28
• September 30, 2002: Iraq, UN Officials Discuss Resumption of Inspections 2002-09-30
• October 1, 2002: UN and Iraq Agree to Resume Inspections 2002-10-01
• October 20, 2002: UN Has Breached Agreement, Iraqis Say 2002-10-20
• November 16, 2002: Blix Says No Guarantee That UN Teams Won’t Have Spies 2002-11-16
• November 18, 2002: UN Inspectors Arrive in Baghdad 2002-11-18
• November 25, 2002: Full Complement of UN Inspection Teams Arrives in Baghdad 2002-11-25
• December 3, 2002: UN: Inspections ‘Unimpeded,’ ‘Cooperation Seems Good’ 2002-12-03
• December 4, 2002: Bush Insists It Is Up to Saddam Whether or Not US Invades Iraq 2002-12-04
• December 5, 2002: Hussein Allows Unfettered Inspections 2002-12-05
• December 7, 2002: Inspector Says UN Teams Not Tools of US and Britain 2002-12-07
• December 10, 2002: US, Britain Lack ‘Killer’ Intelligence on Iraqi WMD 2002-12-10
• December 24, 2002: Iraqi Weapons Scientist First to Give Public Interview 2002-12-24
• December 31, 2002: Annan: No Reason to Invade Iraq 2002-12-31
• January 2, 2003: After 237 Inspections, UN Teams Find Nothing 2003-01-02
• January 9, 2003: White House Undaunted by UN Claim There Is No Evidence of WMD in Iraq 2003-01-09
• January 13, 2003: Blix, ElBaradei Say Inspectors Need Several More Months to Draw Conclusions 2003-01-13
• January 14, 2003: Annan Believes Conflict Can Be Resolved Peacefully 2003-01-14
• January 16, 2003: Inspectors Find Empty Warheads 2003-01-16
• January 20-21, 2003: Bush: Iraqi Disarmament Like ‘A Rerun of a Bad Movie’ 2003-01-20
• February 3, 2003: Britain Releases ‘Dodgy Dossier’ Plagiarized from Grad Student’s Magazine Article, Other Sources 2003-02-03
• February 5, 2003: Powell Gives Fraudulent Presentation About Iraqi WMDs to UN 2003-02-05
• February 7, 2003: Bush Says It’s Up To Saddam Hussein Whether There Is War or Peace 2003-02-07
• February 8, 2003: Weapons Experts Visit Alleged Biological Weapons Site Described by Curveball; Evidence Contradicts Curveball’s Story 2003-02-08
• February 20, 2003: Russian Foreign Minister Says US and Britain Pressuring Weapons Inspectors to Discontinue Operations 2003-02-20
• March 6, 2003: Bush Says Decision Has Not Been Made To Use Force Against Iraq 2003-03-06
• March 7, 2003: UNMOVIC and IAEA Reports on Iraq Weapons Inspections Undermine Bush Administration’s Claims 2003-03-07
• March 17, 2003: UN Weapons Inspectors Leave Iraq 2003-03-17
• August 2, 2005: New NIE Concludes Iran Ten Years Away From Possibly Deploying Nuclear Weapons 2005-08-02
• November 2002-March 2003: Bush Administration Refuses to Cooperate with UN Inspectors
• End of December 2002: UN Inspectors Find No Evidence of WMD in Iraq
• January 2002: Wolfowitz Orders CIA to Investigate Blix
• November 2002-March 2003: US, UN Disagree Over Handling of Iraqi Weapons Inspections
• Mid-January 2002: UN Inspectors Find No Evidence of Iraqi WMD
• Late February 2002: Iraqis Improving Cooperation With UN Weapons Inspectors
• 1998: Iraq’s Failure to Account for All Chemical, Biological Weapons No Indication of Live WMD Programs, Experts Say