UNMOVIC
The New United Nations Weapons Inspection Team
The United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) was created through the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1284 of December 17, 1999. UNMOVIC was to replace the former UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) and continue with the latter’s mandate to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological weapons, and missiles with a range of more than 150 km), and to operate a system of ongoing monitoring and verification to check Iraq’s compliance with its obligations not to reacquire the same weapons prohibited to it by the Security Council.UNMOVIC Structure The Secretary-General of the United Nations appointed Dr….
