Occasional Paper #13: New information on the illicit sale of chemical-weapons materials to Iran and Iraq during the 1980s sheds light on how international trafficking networks operate and suggests some practical steps for countering them.
Reports of Iraq’s missiles program face discrepancies as unilateral destruction of special warheads does not provide correct figures.
The extent of Iraq’s attempts at producing the nerve agent, VX, is the next priority.
Multiple investigations have discovered that Iraq had a centrally controlled mechanism tasked with concealing material and activity proscribed by Security Council resolutions.
UNSCOM seeks document from Iraqi side in order to have a full understanding of the way those weapons were conceived, produced and in some cases destroyed.
Following the first Gulf War the United Nations Special Commission was created to supervise the destruction of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and missile capabilities.
Iraq’s unilateral destruction creates problems for Special Commission’s verification process.
