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Article: UN maps out new road to weapons reform for Iraq; The Security Council votes on a resolution today that may return.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- December 13, 1999
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A year after US and British forces bombed Iraq for thwarting United Nations weapons inspections, the Security Council will vote today on a comprehensive resolution on the Mideast country.
The document before the council covers a broad spectrum of issues, including the some 600 Kuwaitis missing since the Gulf War, measures to strengthen the flow of humanitarian goods, the creation of a new arms inspection team, and the rough criteria for the suspension of sanctions.
But the resolution has run into a crucial sticking point over this last point. Under the British-sponsored resolution that was tabled late Thursday night, sanctions would be suspended only ...