US: The US draft resolution for the UN Security Council seeks to impose severe restrictions on the Iraqi authorities with the aim of achieving maximum freedom for the weapons inspectors.
The resolution which is being negotiated with the other permanent members of the council.
It says that for Iraq to comply with earlier council resolutions on arms inspection, it "shall provide to the Security Council prior to the beginning of inspections and not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution an acceptable and currently accurate, full and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles, including all holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, sub-components, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment; the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material".
It says that Iraq will give the inspectors "immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access to any and all areas, facilities, buildings, equipment, records, and means of transport which they wish to inspect as well as immediate, unimpeded, unrestricted and private access to all officials and other persons whom UNMOVIC [the UN inspection team] wish to interview; further decides that UNMOVIC and IAEA [the International Atomic Energy Agency from which some members of the team are drawn] may at their discretion conduct interviews inside or outside Iraq, facilitate the travel of those interviewed and family members outside of Iraq, and that such interviews shall occur without the presence of observers from the Iraqi government . . ."
The resolution says that the inspection team shall determine who is, and who is not, a member of the team and that all members shall "have unrestricted rights of entry into and out of Iraq, the right to free, unrestricted and immediate movement to and from inspection sites, and the right to inspect any sites and buildings, including unrestricted access to presidential sites.
\ will be provided regional bases and operating bases throughout Iraq, including offices for inspection teams in regions outside Baghdad, shall have the right to the names of all personnel associated with Iraq's chemical biological nuclear and ballistic mission programmes and the associated research facilities.
"Teams shall be accompanied at their bases by sufficient US security forces to protect them; shall have the right to declare for the purposes of this resolution no-fly/no-drive zones, exclusion zones and/or ground and air transit corridors [which shall be enforced by UN security forces or by member- states] shall have the free and unrestricted use and landing of fixed and rotary-winged aircraft . . .
Finally, the resolution says if Iraq makes "false statements or omissions to the council" or fails "at any time to comply and co-operate fully in accordance with the provisions laid out in this resolution" member states of the UN are authorised"to use all necessary means to restore international security in the area."