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16 February 1999

UNSC SELECTS MEMBERS OF IRAQ CEASE-FIRE REVIEW PANELS

(Will check on disarmament compliance, POWs, human rights) (450)
Ambassador Celso Amorim announced February 12 the names of the 28
United Nations employees and international experts who will
participate on three panels which will review the situation in Iraq
for the Security Council.
The council authorized the establishment of the three panels on
January 30 to review Iraq's compliance with the Gulf War cease-fire
demands, provide an expert assessment of the current situation in
Iraq, and make recommendations to the council on how to proceed. The
panels -- on disarmament, humanitarian issues, and POWs and missing
Kuwaiti property -- are each under the chairmanship of Ambassador
Celso Amorim of Brazil, who was president of the council in January
when the plan was agreed upon.
The council has been unable to proceed with disarming Iraq since
Baghdad suspended cooperation with the UN Special Commission
overseeing the destruction of Iraqi weapons (UNSCOM) in 1998 bringing
on air strikes by the US and Britain.
The 20-member panel on "disarmament and current and future ongoing
monitoring and verification" has a wide representation of outside
experts, current members of the UN Special Commission overseeing the
destruction of Iraqi weapons (UNSCOM), and representatives of the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which was responsible for
dismantling Iraq's nuclear weapons program. Noticeably absent from the
list was UNSCOM Executive Chairman Richard Butler, who has been a
target a criticism from Russia.
Members of the disarmament panel, their affiliation, and national
origin are: Ichiro Akyiama (Organization for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons, Japan), Jacques Beaute (IAEA, France); Kaluba
Chitumbo (IAEA, Zambia); Ron Cleminson (UNSCOM, Canada); Rachel Davies
(UNSCOM, United Kingdom); UN Undersecretary General for Disarmament
Affairs Jayantha Dhanapala (Sri Lanka); Charles Duelfer (UNSCOM deputy
chairman, United States); Roberto Garcia Moritan (international
expert, Argentina); Guennady Gatilov (UNSCOM, Russia); Gabriele
Kraatz-Wadsack (UNSCOM, Germany), Hideyo Kurata (UNSCOM, Japan); Liu
Jieyi (international expert, China); Johan Molander (UNSCOM, Sweden);
Jack Ooms (UNSCOM, Netherlands), Daniel Parfait (international expert,
France); GianPiero Perrone (UNSCOM, Italy); Paul Schulte (UNSCOM,
United Kingdom), Tom Shea (IAEA, United States); and Nikita Smidovich
(UNSCOM, Russia).
The panel on humanitarian issues is composed of five UN staff:
Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Sergio Vieira de
Mello; Benon Sevan, who oversees the UN program in Iraq; Staffan de
Mistura, who did the original mapping of Iraq's eight presidential
sites; and Joseph Stephanides of the UN Department of Political
Affairs.
Four UN Secretariat members make up the panel on POWs and Kuwaiti
property: Assistant Secretary General Alvaro de Soto, Raymond
Sommereyns, Francesc Vendrell, and Ralph Zacklin.
The panels are to report to the Security Council by April 15.