HC Deb 05 May 1998 vol 311 cc342-3W
Mr. Kaufman

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will set out the conditions contained in United Nations Security Council resolutions which require to be fulfilled before sanctions on Iraq can properly be lifted. [40427]

Mr. Fatchett

United Nations Security Council resolution 687 provides that the Security Council will consider lifting the sanctions imposed on Iraqin the light of the policies and practices of the Government of Iraq, including the implementation of all relevant resolutions of the Security Council".

These of course include resolution 687 itself which imposed obligations on Iraq with regard to the elimination under international supervision of weapons of mass destruction.