Richard Butler Work Quotations

But, as I understand it, the core (of the inspection team) would still be the technicians and professionals from UNSCOM whose job it is to identify anything relevant to weapons of mass destruction. If that's the way this thing comes out by way of a solution, fine, because the core is still our technical work and our task of disarmament.

We'll need to do the whole spectrum of our work. Documents are part of that, ... We also need to do our inspections, and they're off and running again. It will be a little while yet before we have the whole spectrum of our work done.

We can't work that way...We'll be talking about getting access in a way which shows respect for Iraqi security.

In light of this experience, that is, the absence of full cooperation by Iraq, it must regrettably be recorded again that the commission is not able to conduct the substantive disarmament work mandated to it by the Security Council and, thus, to give the council the assurances it requires with respect to Iraq's prohibited weapons programs.

If there was no prospect of this, the government of Iraq had no intention of continuing to work with the (U.N. Special) Commission.

As we were being thrown out, one of the last conversations I had with them (the Iraqi officials) was about their illegal work to extend their missile program,