Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

1. Iraq officially accepted the SC Resolution 687 (1991) on April 6^th 1991. Under para (12) of the resolution Iraq declared all the nuclear materials it possessed. Iraq also puts these materials under the complete monitoring and possession of the IAEA. The nuclear fuel was completely transferred from Iraq in 1991 and 1994. The balance of the nuclear materials has been completed since 1996.

2. The IAEA dispatched (40) inspection teams to Iraq within the period May 1991-December 1998. All teams had (634) inspectors. They conducted (560) inspections to different sites. The gross total of the inspection effort in Iraq, except the teams of monitoring and verification, mounted to (5057) man /day.

3. The establishments and instruments of the previous nuclear programme were partially or wholly destroyed due to the enemy's air and missile strikes during the war in January and February 1991. In addition the Iraqi side destroyed a number of these establishments and instruments in March-April 1991. Also, a number of them was destroyed by the IAEA's teams in 1991 and 1992 . The total number of the items (buildings, instruments and materials) destroyed by the IAEA is as follow:

In addition , Iraq put at the disposal of IAEA the materials and the equipment related to the previous nuclear programme which are not yet received (abroad).

These measures leave Iraq without any material capability in the nuclear field.

4. The Director General of the IAEA submitted a briefing to the Security Council on Nov. 7^th 1996. He stated ( no other matters in the nuclear field necessitate destruction, removal or rendering them useless since the last dispatch of the harmless nuclear fuel was flown to Russia in February 1994).

5. The IAEA had an access to a large amount of documents that cover the different aspects of the previous nuclear programme. It also confiscated all the technical relevant reports. No copy of them was left in Iraq. These documents mounted to 1000 000 - 1500 000 pages of technical and non-technical ones. With these documents there are about (9) kms. of microfilms and a large amount of microfiche which have documents, charts, engineering maps and sketches of workshops.

These documents help the IAEA to assess the previous nuclear programme and to have closer eye on its dimensions and phases of its development.

6. Iraq made an initiative during the period May 1991-July 1992 and submitted a sixty - page document in which the main pillars of the previous nuclear programme were described. A new 100-pages edition of this document was issued and handed over to the IAEA towards the end of 1992. At the request of the IAEA Iraq handed over fully final and comprehensive document (FFCD) on Nov. 20^th 1995. This document has the scientific and theoretical achievements reached by the previous nuclear programme. It has a fully- detailed presentation that falls in six different items of about (2000 pages including the annexes). Intensive efforts were exercised to prepare this document within the period December 1995- February 1997 following a series of meetings, revisions and assessments. This document was so helpful to the IAEA in its activities of verification that its Director General declared in his opening speech to the Council of Governors on July 9^th 1997 " As previously mentioned the IAEA is in a position, since a certain period, where the need to expand our knowledge of the details of Iraq's previous nuclear programme becomes less demanding ".

7. In Nov. 1997 the IAEA submitted its semi-annual report. In this report it pointed out that Iraq implemented its obligations under para (C) of the Resolution 687 (1991). The IAEA authorized the Security Council to pass a resolution to move to the phase of the ongoing monitoring. Pressures were exercised on the Security Council not to pass such a resolution.

8. In April 1998, the IAEA presented its semi-annual report. In this report it confirmed that Iraq implemented its obligations under para (C) of the Resolution 687. Again the U.S. and Britain exercised pressures not to pass a resolution to move on to the ongoing monitoring plan.

9. Iraq officially accepted the SC Resolution 715 (1991) on November 26^th 1993 ( SC document S/2681). Actually, Iraq put into effect the plan of ongoing monitoring and verification in April 1992. This means that Iraq implemented the plan prior to its official acceptance of the resolution. The implementation took place in a highly cooperative and transparent manner with the IAEA's inspectors .

10. The IAEA sent within Baghdad monitory and verification center (BMVC) (78) inspection groups of (484) inspectors for the purpose of monitoring and verification until December 15^th 1998. They conducted (2154) inspections including (531) ones to sites which were not covered by the plan of monitoring and verification. They were conducted in cooperation with the Special Commission's monitoring team. Most of these inspections took place without any prior notice. No proscribed equipment or materials were reported. ( see the report of the Agency ) (GC 41/20).

11. The IAEA sent, since 1993, specialized teams to carry out the plan of the ongoing monitoring and verification; (10) environmental surveillance ones and (8) ones to examine the machine and equipment covered by the plan. (1) team for conducting the theoretical calculations and the nuclear materials. (2) environment monitoring teams, (2) excavation site teams. (3) teams for verifying and balancing the nuclear materials. (4) helicopter-boarded air surveillance teams using Gamma-assisted detection equipment. These teams set up a camera - assisted monitoring in addition system since 1994. A number of Iraqi sites and establishments were involved where (25) video and photograph cameras were installed in (5) major sites : (291) equipment and materials were labeled with (294) seals and stickers in (29) sites. They were covered by the nuclear monitoring plan.

12. In accordance with the plan of the ongoing monitoring and verification of the SC Resolution 715(1991), Iraq presented semi-annual declaration since 1994. They included more than (160) items related to the Iraqi sites and establishments covered by the plan. The number of the sites covered by the plan mounted to more than ((258) sites. 95% of these sites do not actually have any relation to the previous nuclear programme. The data represent a detailed inventory of the activities, missions, materials and the equipment of the nuclear programme. They also have information related to the future and recent plans, the planned and actual budgets, the number of the working cadres, the organizational structure, the names of the Directors General and the directors of sections.

13. The IAEA's teams interviewed, within ((BMVC), the personnel administering the previous nuclear programme. The interview took place to make sure that the activities of their new positions involved no concern related to a nuclear field.