(KUNA) -- Argentina on Thursday urged the Security Council to close the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) by the end of the year since it has been idle for the last three years, a UN spokesman told KUNA.
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The council met on Thursday to be briefed by the Commission's deputy chairman Demetrius Perricos who presented the members with his quarterly report on the body's work. The spokesman said "there was a general consensus among all council members, including the US, to do something about UNMOVIC, but there was no specific proposal on what or how".
He said some members, such as Japan, France and Greece, suggested that the international community use UNMOVIC expertise in the future. UNMOVIC was monitoring Iraqi weapons under the Saddam regime. Its experts left Iraq on the eve of the country's liberation in 2003. They never went back. The council is scheduled to meet again on the subject next December. |