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Untying the Gordian Knot: Evaluating the Legal Dimensions of the UN Weapons Inspection Programme in Iraq and Rethinking the Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2004

Rex J. Zedalis
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Abstract

A variety of legal problems exist with the UN weapons inspection régime applicable to Iraq. These problems hinder the assurance that Iraq can be disarmed of the ability to produce biological or chemical weapons. Given this fact, the stalemate produced by the mid-December 1998 air strikes against that country might be best resolved by a reconfigured inspection program which aims at addressing Iraqi weapons of mass destruction efforts in the context of global security policy regarding such weaponry, with due account taken of the desires of Iraq's neighbors and the importance of reintegrating that nation into the world community.

Keywords

inspectionsIraqreassessmentUNSCOMweapons of mass destruction
Type
ARTICLES
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , June 1999 , pp. 297 - 322
Copyright
© 1999 Kluwer Law International

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