Sentence examples for the unscom from inspiring English sources
proper noun
An inspection regime created by the United Nations to ensure Iraq's compliance with weapons regulations after the Gulf War
On the same day, however, American officials confirmed to the New York Times that American spies had worked undercover on the Unscom teams.
Today, with air strikes against Iraq underway, senior Administration officials said they believed and feared that the Unscom inspection program was dead, as the President had predicted.
"They took air samples, earth samples, dust samples and so on, in order to be tested in the Unscom laboratory in Baghdad.
U.S. officials said the UNSCOM inspectors would be allowed to go where they want, when they want, and would be accompanied by diplomats only when visiting presidential residences.
Mr Ritter told BBC Panorama in 1999 that "the US killed Unscom" and had hijacked its listening equipment for various uses - including choosing bombing targets for Desert Fox - though these allegations were denied by the Unscom chief, Richard Butler.
Its capability was reduced during the UNSCOM inspections and is probably more limited now than it was at the time of the Gulf war, although VX production and agent storage life probably have been improved.
DURING the heyday of the UN Special Commission on Iraq (Unscom) in the 1990s, Scott Ritter was the most controversial of its weapons inspectors.
By late 2002, Saddam finally tilted toward trying to persuade the international community that Iraq was cooperating with the inspectors of Unscom (the United Nations Special Commission) and that it no longer had W.M.D. programs.
According to the United Nations Special Commission, or Unscom, the now defunct group charged with inspecting Iraq after the gulf war, industrial-scale chemical weapons production began in 1982.
Mr. Blix, an expert in international and constitutional law, had some differences with the United Nations Special Commission, Unscom, which was created after the 1991 war to destroy Iraq's prohibited biological and chemical weapons and missile systems and the means to make them.
Mr. Ekeus was the executive chairman from 1991 to 1997 of the United Nations Special Commission, Unscom, which destroyed biological, chemical and missile stocks after the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
