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UNMOVIC Could Become Permanent Agency, Blix Says
The U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, originally established to search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, could someday be turned into a permanent U.N. inspections body, former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said yesterday (see GSN, Jan. 30). “Perhaps UNMOVIC, with a somewhat modified mandate and with a small core staff and a roster of trained inspectors, could become a permanent relatively low-cost instrument for the Security Council,” Blix said during a conference at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. He added that UNMOVIC could “set up and direct inspection teams at short notice” in light of the “more active role that the council envisages for itself in the sphere of weapons of mass destruction” (Robert Koch, Agence France-Presse, June 28). Blix also said yesterday that talks on Israeli nuclear disarmament should be included as part of overall Middle Eastern peace efforts, according to the Associated Press. While saying that a “road map to peace is the first step,” Blix said that he doubted that “you can have a peace process without considering the nuclear issue.” Israel, which is a not member of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, has never publicly declared possessing a nuclear weapons program (Andrea Dudikova, Associated Press, June 28).
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