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Iraq-United National Crisis

IRAQ-UNITED NATIONS CRISIS WINTER 1998

The current crisis involving Iraq and the United Nations has evolved subsequent to the end of the Gulf War in 1991. The dispute between Iraq and the United Nations is focused on the resolutions imposing sanctions and conditions on Iraq by the Security Council of the United Nations, the extent to which Iraq has or has not complied with those resolutions, and the perceptions of the United States primarily with respect to such compliance or noncompliance. The evolution of this problem may be appreciated through a review of the Security Council resolutions directed at Iraq that have been implemented since the end of the Gulf War in 1991.

The Security Council passed Resolution 686 on 2 March 1991. This resolution reaffirmed the sanctions against Iraq, but offered to speed the flow of medicine into the country if Iraq accepted responsibility for the damages incurred by Kuwait during the seven-month Iraqi occupation. This resolution also specified the conditions required of Iraq to gain an agreement on a formal cease fire. Nothing much occurred as a consequence of this resolution.

Resolution 687 was passed by the Security Council on 3 April 1991. Through this resolution, the United Nations offered to end the Gulf War and progressively lift most sanctions against Iraq, if Iraq accepted a series of stringent military and financial conditions. This resolution required Iraq to recognize the independence of Kuwait, and to accept the inviolability of a boundary between Iraq and Kuwait to be established by an international commission. Iraq also was required to make known to the United Nations a full disclosure of all chemical and biological weapons, ballistic missile stocks and production facilities, and all nuclear materials. Lastly, this resolution required that Iraq cooperate in the destruction of all of these materials. Sanctions were not lifted by this resolution; however, the resol...

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