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Obviously there was no movement and obviously the best and most constructive thing for me to do is to take this back to those who really run the show, namely the (U.N.) Security Council, and see where we go from there.
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I am deeply concerned about the whole process. I have a message to convey from the Security Council to the Iraqis. I hope that they will commit themselves to the past cooperation with U.N. inspection teams.
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But, as I understand it, the core (of the inspection team) would still be the technicians and professionals from UNSCOM whose job it is to identify anything relevant to weapons of mass destruction. If that's the way this thing comes out by way of a solution, fine, because the core is still our technical work and our task of disarmament.
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I have always insisted that any assistance offered to us by member states be for our purposes, our legal purposes alone and not for theirs.
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If (Iraqi officials) cooperate with this, if they break the habit of a lifetime and tell us the whole truth, then we will be able to verify that and deal with those results within about six months.
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If Iraqi disarmament were a five-lap race, we would be three quarters of the way around the fifth and final lap.
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Given the last 22 months, given today's circumstances of crumbling sanctions, given the fact that he is back in the arms business, Mister Chairman, it follows as the night follows the day for me to say what I am saying: These sanctions are not working.
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I earnestly believe that those documents exist and they're in the possession of the government of Iraq, and they can choose to give them to us.
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He was very respected among us. I don't know why he did what he did, but I cannot condemn what he did -- nor do I condone it.
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