§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what Her Majesty's Government's policy was in 1990 on the International Atomic Energy Agency's inspection of Iraq's nuclear installations; and what it is currently.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggOur policy in 1990 was to support IAEA inspection activities in Iraq under the terms of its fullscope safeguards agreement.
Since the Gulf war and the adoption of Security Council Resolution 687 in April 1991, we have supported, and will continue to support, the United Nations Special Commission and the IAEA in their task of destroying or removing all of Iraq's nuclear weapons-usable material and ensuring that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programme cannot be regenerated.
§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his policy on the sending of United Nations inspection and observer teams to the marshlands of Iraq and southern Iraq to monitor human rights violations there.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggIraq is continuing to refuse access to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iraq and United Nations human rights monitors, contrary to resolutions on the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Human Rights Commission. The Commission recently requested the Secretary-General to send human rights monitors to neighbouring countries. We will continue to press Iraq to allow monitors to enter the country.