United Nations (UN) Weapons inspectors

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton joins a rally denouncing the presence of members of the Iranian regime at the U.N. General .... U.S. military action would not be viable if U.N. nuclear weapons inspectors remained present in Iran's military sites — monitoring now required under the deal ...

Bolton, Donald Rumsfeld, and Bush had Colin Powell give a speech at the United Nations, stating that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The three knew that this was a lie. The U.N. weapons inspectors had said as much. But no one listened to them. That lie led to a war in which more than ...

Baghdad then acknowledged to the UN weapons inspectors (UNSCOM) that its proscribed weapons programs, including chemical and biological weapons, were bigger and more advanced than it had acknowledged. Bur the Iraqis claimed to have destroyed whatever they did not declare. UNSCOM did not ...

We were on opposite sides of a public debate on the question of the nature of the United Nations and the role of the United Nations in what was then still the ... And then he goes on to disparage the U.N. further and talks about the 38-story U.N. headquarters in New York and says you could cut off the top ten ...

After all, this was a man who had famously declared: “There's no such thing as the United Nations,” adding that if the United Nations building in New York “lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.” Mr. Bolton, President ... Trying to send chemical weapons inspectors to Iraq. (Mr. Bolton said he was ...

"UN Security Council weapons inspectors have uncovered evidence that #NorthKorea is trafficking in weapons of mass destruction technology. This info should be a pivot point for the US & Europe." "UN inspectors have reported that #NorthKorea is selling #Syria elements for the manufacture of chemical ...

John Howard in his letter to the Herald (March 23) conveniently forgets that we, the Australian public, marched in our hundreds of thousands in every city, to protest that we did not want to go to war before the United Nations inspectors finished their finding on the weapons of mass destruction. When will ...

On March 14, the UK envoy to the UN Security Council announced that the United Kingdom had asked the OPCW to independently verify its findings in the nerve agent attack against Skripal. On Monday, the OPCW experts arrived in the United Kingdom for the investigation. Most recently, Vladimir Ermakov, ...

Security Council weapons inspectors monitoring North Korea's compliance with United Nations sanctions have reportedly concluded that, for several years, the North has been selling ... So Kim Jung-Un's evasions and revenues might well be considerably greater than the information possessed by the U.N..

January 8, 1999 - The United States admits that UN weapons inspectors installed surveillance equipment used to spy on Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. December 17, 1999 - Security Council Resolution 1284 replaces UNSCOM with the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission ...

The State Department has approved US exports that will help a UN agency set up nuclear monitoring stations inside Iran to strengthen the nuclear deal. ... Iran's testing of ballistic missiles, give weapons inspectors better access to Iranian military sites and extend certain nuclear restrictions under the deal.

Both Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney also told the American people that, despite the conclusions of UN weapons inspectors, there was "no doubt" that Saddam Hussein's regime had an active program to develop weapons of mass destruction. They claimed 100 percent certainty -- and, like Rumsfeld, ...

Last week, the U.N. Security Council was supposed to vote on a draft resolution demanding a 30-day truce in Syria to allow aid delivery, medical assistance ... A team of U.N. chemical weapons inspectors confirmed that the nerve agent sarin was used in an attack in Eastern Ghouta on the morning of Aug.

Wilkerson recalls assisting Powell in preparing his presentation at that United Nations in justification of a preemptive war with Iraq, based on the flawed ... and proposed the continuation of a containment policy that could force Baghdad to allow full access to international weapons inspectors to investigate ...

The needlessly provocative military exercises– which are a source of endless aggravation in Pyongyang– include “decapitation” drills that simulate the capturing and killing of the North's supreme leader, Kim jong-un. Is it any wonder why Pyongyang thinks it needs nuclear weapons to defend itself?

However, diplomats and weapons inspectors suspect Syria may have secretly maintained or developed a new chemical weapons capability. The Syrian mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the U.N. report. The U.N. monitors also said one country, which ...

Chemical weapons inspectors have for the first time linked the sarin gas used in an attack in Damascus in 2013 to President Assad's stockpiles. ... “markers” on samples taken from the site of the attack in rebel-held eastern Ghouta with sarin stocks handed over to the UN by Assad's government in 2014.

UNITED NATIONS -- Russia vetoed a U.N. Security Council vote on Friday that would have continued the work of the chemical weapons inspectors in Syria charged with assigning blame for attacks against civilians that horrified the world. The vote came one day after Russia blocked a U.S. effort to extend ...

Since the war began in 2011, an estimated 400,000 Syrians have been killed, according to the UN Envoy for Syria. Facts:Bashar ... February 16, 2012 - The United Nations General Assembly passes a nonbinding resolution endorsing the Arab League plan for Assad to step down. The vote was 137 in favor ...