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To: Vitas who wrote (6380)	4/2/2003 12:23:14 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 21614

5) REWRITING HISTORY: 678 and 687 The Resolution 'recalls]' that UN Security Council Resolution 678 (29th November 1990) 'authorized member states to use all necessary means to uphold and implement its resolution 660 (1990).. and all relevant resolutions subsequent to Resolution 660 (1990)' - suggesting that 678 authorised the use of 'all necessary means' to implement all resolutions on Iraq from 1990 to the present day. This is clearly untrue: 678 only authorised the use of 'all necessary means' to implement resolutions on Iraq passed between 2 August - ie. the date 660 was passed - and 29 November 1990. The Resolution also falsely recalls that 'in its resolution 687 (1991) the Council declared that a ceasefire would be based on acceptance by Iraq of the provisions of that resolution.' As is quite clear from the text of 687, the ceasefire was not based on Iraq's acceptance of the provisions of resolution 687: it was based on 'official notification by Iraq to the Secretary-General and to the Security Council of its acceptance of that resolution.' The new Resolution implies that the ceasefire would no longer be operative if Iraq is seen to no longer accept its full disarmament obligations, portraying the ceasefire as continually conditional upon Iraqi compliance.