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On 30 March 1984, the United Nations Security Council issued a statement condemning the use of chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War. The same day the US government announced it was instituting a special licensing requirement for exports to Iran and Iraq of particular chemicals that could be used in the manufacture of chemical weapons. Other governments took similar steps. Following this statement, reports... 

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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) the text of the resolution can be found via . 

As of July 2005, the OPCW s membership includes all of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, and now covers ... 

On 3 April 1991, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 687 (and a number of subsequent resolutions) on Iraq, which placed an additional and new demand on the IAEA resources and subsumed all other safeguards activities in that country. For the first time a Member State with declared nuclear facilities (which had been regularly inspected by the IAEA under a Safeguards Agreement) had clandestinely established additional nuclear facilities and had begun to produce nuclear material in violation of the Agreement. 

The United Nations Security Council Resolution 687, the so-called cease-fire resolution, inter alia, mandated the destruction of all weapons of mass destruction— chemical, biological, ballistic and nuclear—existing in Iraq. The IAEA was given sole responsibility under this resolution to destroy, remove or render harmless not only nuclear weapons but also any existing capability to acquire them, including prohibited precursor materials such as enriched uranium, plutonium and all facilities, equipment and materials used for their production. 

United Nations. (1986). Report of the Mission Dispatched by the Secretary-General to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Conflict Between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq. United Nations Security Council S/17911. 

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Italian forces used sulphur mustard against Ethiopian forces in 1936 and it was used by Japanese forces against Chinese troops during World War II (Robinson, 1971). In the Iran-Iraq war, allegations, which proved well founded, of the use of sulphur mustard by Iraq were made (United Nations Security Council, 1984,1986,1987). In 1986, more than 30 Iranian casualties whose injuries were compatible with exposure to mustard gas were evacuated to London for treatment. The author was thus able to gather first-hand experience of treating mustard gas casualties. 

United Nations, Security Council, Resolution 1540 (2004). Adopted by the Security Council at its 4956th Meeting, on 28 April 2004, available at http //disarmament2.un.org/Committeel540/Resl540(E).pdf. 

Report S-16433, United Nations Security Council, New York, 1984. 

On October 20,2006, the ninth World Congress of the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology was held in Seoul, Korea. On October 8,2006, North Korea had carried out a nuclear explosion in an underground test The United Nations Security Council denounced the Korean test China spoke for the first time of the need for appropriate punitive action. The contrast between the high degree of development over the past half century in South Korea compared to the mass starvation in North Korea illustrates the trade-off between the peaceful andmilitaiy uses of atomic energy, emphasized in the speech by President Eisenhower in 1953. 

Secretary-General of the United Nations. Note by the Secretary-General. New York NY United Nations Security Council 11 October 1995. S/1995/864. Original in English. 

The reasons why Iraq did not use these weapons during the Persian Gulf War, the subject of much speculation, will probably never be known with certainty. However, this Iraqi threat highlighted the problems posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction among Third World nations and the potential threat posed to U.S. forces as well as other nations. On 3 April 1991, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 687, which required that... 

The Persian Gulf War and continuing problems with Iraq resulted in the creation of a unique United Nations organization known as The United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM).3 UNSCOM was established specifically by a United Nations Security Council resolution that spelled out conditions for cease-fire and the destruction, removal, or rendering harmless of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 km. UNSCOM unilaterally defined the terms for its inspections of Iraqi facilities and has continued to direct and support compliance inspections. 

See ICTR, Statement, Address to the United Nations Security Council Six- Monthly Report On The Completion Strategy Of The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda (ICTR) By Judge Vagn Joensen, President (5 June 2014), http //www.unictr.otg/en/news/address-united-nations-security-council-six-monthly-report-completion-strategy-intemational (accessed 27 February 2015). 

The Prosecutor s Statement to the United Nations Security Council on the Situation in Darfur can be found here http //www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/otp/stmt-20threport-darfur.pdf (accessed 31 March 2015). 

See United Nations, Security Council, Adopting Resolution 2171 (2014), Pledges Better Use of System-Wide Approach to Conflict Prevention, (21 August 2014) http //www.un.org/press/en/2014/scll528.doc.htm (accessed 2 July 2015). 

Truong QS, Keeffe R, Ellacott T, Desson K, Herber N (2001) In IAEA symposium on international safeguards, IAEA-SM-367/8/08/P Tuttas D, Schwieters JB, Quaas N, Bouman C (1998) Improvements in TIMS high precision isotope ratio measurements for small sample sizes. Application note 30136, Thermo Eisher Scientific, Bremen Tuttas D, Schwieters JB, Bouman C, Deerberg M (2005) New compact discrete dynode multipliers integrated into the thermo scientific TRITON variable multicollector array. Application note 30192, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bremen United Nations Security Council (1991) Text of UNSC Resolution 687. Available at http //www.fris.org/ news/un/iraq/sres/sres0687.htm... 

Inspections stopped in 1998, when the Iraqi government stopped cooperating and essentially threw the inspectors out of the country. As of the fall of 2001, the United Nations Security Council has yet to persuade Baghdad to restart inspections, agreement to which is necessary to remove economic sanctions on Iraq. 

Consensual peacetime operations when the receiving state has authorized the use of force (including Peacekeeping operations under Chapter VII authority of the United Nations Security Council)... 

The Executive Council shall, in cases of particular gravity and urgency, bring the issue or matter, including relevant information and conclusions, directly to the attention of the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Security Council. It shall at the same time inform all States Parties of this step. 

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