The debate came to a head in 2006 with an IAU resolution that created an official definition for the term "planet".
In Washington, administration officials said they would insist that Iraq comply with the resolution that created Dr. Blix's team or face an indefinite extension of sanctions.
Under the resolution that created Dr. Blix's team, those sanctions can be suspended six months after the Iraqis fulfill a list of key requirements set by the inspectors and, ultimately, be lifted once the inspectors conclude that Iraq has come clean and dismantled its prohibited weapons programs.
"You just look back and you think, it's still alive and relevant," Ms. DeMarse said as she handed out "I stole this from the Watergate hotel" pens and shot glasses imprinted with the opening lines of the resolution that created the committee.
The official, who was not identified under State Department rules, said the U.N. resolution that created the disarmament program provided that enforcement could take place under Chapter 7, the section that can authorize military force.
The UN resolutions that created the mission were unclear.
In other news Monday, council members passed an item asking city staff to prepare a resolution that would create a minimum number of electric vehicle spaces for new residential, commercial and industrial developments.
In his own Monday address to the General Assembly a few hours earlier, President Obama claimed that he'd be willing to work with "any nation, including Russia and Iran," to create a resolution that would help put a stop to the crisis in Syria.
C1 A.M.A. Calls for Drug Database The American Medical Association adopted a resolution that urges the federal government to create a database in which all clinical drug trials performed in this country would be registered at their outsets.
Since renewed Mideast violence erupted in September 2000, the United States has thwarted every effort by the Palestinians to get the Security Council to adopt a resolution that would condemn Israeli actions and create some kind of outside monitoring to help cool tensions.
