Richard Butler Report Quotations

My duty is to report what has happened to the Security Council and the United Nations. I'm going to New York to do that.

My job is to return to New York to report this stage of affairs to the Security Council. I can't go into details until I do that.

What we've got to be certain about above all is whether it came from a country supporting these terrorists as a matter of policy, such as Iraq, which we know has made this stuff, ... And there's a credible report not fully verified that they may indeed have given anthrax to exactly the group that did the World Trade Center.

He mentioned in particular his wish for me to hear their report on chemical and biological weapons. That seemed to me to be a positive development and I took it in good spirit.

(Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister) Tariq Aziz said to me on the telephone today he will be in a position to give me a fuller report on the biological area tonight,

I regret that I had to report the facts yesterday, which is that (unfettered access) had not been given, and we can't adequately do our jobs under these circumstances.

I could have been in a position to report to the (U.N.) Security Council the end or very near end of the missile and chemical weapons files.