Security Council is ready to lift restrictions on scientific research and technical in Iraq

February 27, 2010 · Posted in NEWS
02:00 PM Posted 27/02/2010 02:00 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP): The UN Security Council on its willingness to lift restrictions on scientific research and technical assistance to Iraq in the event of confirmation of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s commitment to its obligations in the Baghdad area of disarmament.

And the Ambassador of France to the United Nations Gerard Arrow The Security Council stresses its willingness to re-evaluate the restrictions provided for in resolutions 687 and 707 for the year 1991 with respect to weapons of mass destruction and civilian nuclear activities, with a trend to be submitted as soon as the required steps.

The Arrow Security Council President for the current month in a statement read at an open meeting of the Council on behalf of the member countries to the International Council also stresses “the importance of Iraq to pass the Additional Protocol” to a comprehensive safeguards agreement. He noted that the Security Council requested the International Atomic Energy Agency to inform members “as soon as possible,” the size of Iraq’s cooperation with the IAEA with respect to those guarantees. Will be the lifting of those restrictions is limited to only the scientific aspects of Iraq has asked the United Nations to allow the import of chemicals, including pesticides, which can be exploited in agriculture or be used for military purposes.

The Iraq wants to get out of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, but the international community asking for the commitment first Bhdodh other issues associated with Kuwait and Kuwaiti prisoners of war and Kuwaiti property stolen during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. He said Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in a letter to the Security Council last month his government’s support for international efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and their commitment to the disarmament as well as other international procedures, stressing the commitment of Baghdad, also to take additional steps toward meeting the standards of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.

The Council welcomed the presidential statement in the letter Zebari, Iraq’s accession to the Treaty on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, and intended to sign the Hague Code of Conduct to prevent the spread of ballistic missiles. The Council also welcomed the signing of Iraq on the additional protocol to comprehensive safeguards agreement of the International Atomic Energy Agency reaffirmed its commitment to Iraq’s independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity. He stressed the importance of stability and security for Iraq and its people and the region and the entire international community.

For their part, diplomats here described the presidential statement of the Security Council, which was based on a proposal to the United States as a “gift” to the current Iraqi government to enhance its chances of winning the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled on the seventh of next month. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Rosemary DiCarlo after Security Council approval for the statement that “it is clear that Iraq still has other steps to be taken” before going out of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
He also said Lebanon’s ambassador to the UN Security Council Nawaf Salam said in a statement to KUNA that what happened in the Security Council today, “not final,” pointing out that no one can predict the timing of exit Iraq from Chapter VII. For his part, Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations, Sir Mark Lyall Grant said in a statement to KUNA the presidential statement to the Security Council as “important” because it shows support for the steps taken by the Iraqi government. Grant stressed at the same time “the importance of additional steps that should be taken to the Iraqi government regarding the issue of the border with Kuwait as well as the Additional Protocol concerning the prevention of nuclear proliferation.”

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