Blair's Tests For Iraq Disarmament
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On March 12, 2003, Tony Blair and Jack Straw proposed a draft resolution to the United Nations. If the demands for disarmament were met by 17 March, it was suggested that military action would be averted and Saddam Hussein allowed to remain in power.
The six tests involved:
- a public statement by Saddam Hussein, broadcast in Iraq, admitting possession of weapons of mass destruction, stating his regime has decided to give them up and pledging to cooperate with UN weapon inspectors.
- a commitment to allow Iraqi scientists to be interviewed by the inspectors outside Iraq.
- the surrender of, and explanation of the 10,000 litres of anthrax the Iraqis are believed still to be holding.
- a commitment to the destruction of proscribed missiles.
- an account of the unmanned aerial vehicles and remotely piloted vehicles or drones.
- a commitment to surrender all mobile bio-production laboratories for destruction.
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