Foreword / Charles A. Duelfer -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The United Nations secretary-general investigations in Iran and Iraq -- 3. The decade of UNSCOM -- 4. An analysis of UNSCOM -- 5. The Amorim panel and the creation of UNMOVIC -- 6. The years of UNMOVIC -- 7. The developments leading to war in March 2003 and the Iraq Survey Group -- 8. Iraq's chemical and biological programmes -- 9. The absence of WMD stockpiles in Iraq -- 10. Inspection, verification and non-proliferation : lessons learned -- 11. Future roles for UNMOVIC and its expertise -- 12. Prospects for the future -- App. 1. United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 (1991) -- App. 2. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1284 (1999) -- App. 3. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441 (2002)
Summary
"This authoritative account details the persistent efforts made first by the United Nations Secretary-General experts in the 1980s, then by the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) from 1991 to 1998 and by the United Nations Monitoring. Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) in just over three months from November 2002 to March 2003 and subsequently by the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) to uncover the chemical and biological weapons programmes in Iraq. The absence of stockpiles in Iraq is analysed and key lessons drawn for the prohibition regimes for chemical and biological weapons."--BOOK JACKET
