Weaknesses of UNMOVIC
• UNSC RES 1284 (17 Dec 99) created UN Monitoring, Verification
and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIq
• UNMOVIC is weaker than UNSCOM •••
.
- Lacks staff ei:pertise to baseline/evaluate Iraqi coJDpliance.
- Knowledgeable inspectors have left.
• ••• and is structured to reduce USG influence:
- Chairman and staff chosen based on Iraqi "sensitivities."
- Only one U.S. national among its top leadenhip
• UNMOVIC will be more acceptable "to the international
community" because it has less U.S., British and European lnfluenc~
(We belitWe it will be less effective for the same reason).
• Tbe reduced U.S. presence In UNMOVIC may inhibit sharing or some
sensitive lntelHeence. USG unwilllng to share intel1lgeoce with
untrustworthy organization.
• Absence of Inspectors for three years bas allowed Iraq to Increase Its
technological capabiUtles, burrow deeper underground, make
components of its WMD programs mobile, render existing
UNSCOM/IAEA data stale, aod otherwise stiff en the challenge posed
to an inspecdons reclml
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