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The UN Council votes unanimously for Resolution 1441, the 17th Iraq disarmament resolution passed by the council, calling for immediate and complete disarmament of Iraq. The resolution also demands that Iraq declare all weapons of mass destruction to the council, and account for its known chemical weapons material stockpiles.
The Iraq disarmament crisis was claimed as one of the primary issues that led to the multinational invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003. Since the 1980s, Iraq was widely assumed to have been producing and extensively running the programs of biological , chemical and nuclear weapons .
Called for an end to the Iran–Iraq War. 522: 4 October 1982 Unanimous Called for an end to the Iran–Iraq War. 540: 31 October 1983 12-0-3 Condemned violations of the Geneva Conventions in the Iran–Iraq War. Malta, Nicaragua, and Pakistan abstained. 582: 24 February 1986 Unanimous "Deplores" the use of chemical weapons in the Iran–Iraq ...
Iraq signed the Geneva Protocol in 1931, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1969, and the Biological Weapons Convention in 1972 but did not ratify it until June 11, 1991. Iraq ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention in January 2009, with its entry into force for Iraq coming a month later on February 12. [12]
Over 280,000 sorties were flown in the first 9 years of the NFZs. [6] ... Iraq disarmament crisis 1991–2003; Arms-to-Iraq affair 1992–1996; Iraq Liberation Act 1998;
Iraq War – a protracted armed conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011, which began with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein. [1] [2] The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi ...
The following is a timeline of major events during the Iraq ... symbolically ending the twenty-four year reign ... 2005–2006 Christian Peacemaker hostage crisis ...
Some Iraqis cheer in the streets as U.S. forces capture deserted Ba'ath Party ministry buildings and pull down a huge iron statue of Saddam Hussein, ending his 24-year rule of Iraq. Looting of government offices breaks out and forces fighting for Hussein melt away in large portions of the city.