Sentence examples for key disarmament from inspiring English sources

The embargo cannot be lifted until Iraq meets key disarmament requirements, but Mr. Hussein will not permit arms inspectors to enter the country either.

"It enables the Security Council to suspend the sanctions provided two criteria: that there be cooperation with Unmovic in 120 days, and included in the cooperation will also be the resolution of some key disarmament issues," he said.

Even so, he has repeatedly said, he has to return inspectors to Iraq to establish what he calls new "baselines" from which to work on determining whether Iraq has completed "key disarmament tasks" as called for in United Nations resolutions.

Last December the Security Council, in creating the new Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, gave Iraq a plan under which sanctions could be suspended after a period of cooperation with inspectors on solving key disarmament tasks.

Iraq must be declared free of all prohibited weapons of mass destruction in order to have sanctions lifted, although the new commission, in a gesture to Iraq, is permitted to recommend a suspension of the embargo if the Iraqis cooperate on still-undefined "key" disarmament tasks for six months.

It may be Côte d'Ivoire's best hope of peace yet.That is because compromise has been reached on the two key issues: disarmament and identification.

But a 1999 Security Council resolution says the inspectors cannot determine "key remaining disarmament tasks" until they are back on the ground to see what happened since they left in December 1998.

Supplementing the basic resolutions of 1991 and following years, it provided Iraq with a somewhat less ambitious approach: in return for "cooperation in all respects" for a specified period of time, including progress in the resolution of "key remaining disarmament tasks," it opened the possibility, not for the lifting, but the suspension of sanctions.

Three initiatives in particular stand out for reminding the international community of three key nuclear disarmament truths: First, it is primarily a humanitarian endeavor; second, it is underpinned by clear legal obligations; and, third, practical proposals for its realization exist.

A narrower definition of each term, however, reveals key differences between disarmament and arms control.

Mr Blix said that the key to faster disarmament was not an increase in the number of inspectors, but more information from Iraq.