Documents on the Iraq Crisis
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Documents on the Iraq Crisis
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Individual States
Permanent
Member of the UN Security Council
China
France
- Iraq
/ Address by Dominique de Villepin before the United Nations
Security Council, 19. March 2003
- Declaration
by Jacques Chirac, President of the Republic, 18. March
2003
- Chirac:
'A lot of progress has been achieved', CNN interview
with President Chirac, 16. March 2003
- Joint
Statement by Russia, France and Germany , 15. March
2003
- Speech
by the Prime Minister, Mr. Raffarin, to the National Assembly,
26. February 2003
- Adress
by Mr Dominique de Villepin, French Minister of Foreign Affairs,
5. February 2003
- Interview
given by Dominique de Villepin, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
to the "Le Parisien" newspaper (excerpts), 9.December
2002
- Draft
of the France Resolution on Iraq (pdf), October 2002
- Interview
of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin by TV Channel "France
2" (Excerpts), 27. September 2002
- Briefing
by Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Dominique de Villepin,
regarding the 57th Session of the UN General Assembly,
16. September 2002
- Statement
by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Spokesperson,
4. September 2002
- Statement
by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, 27.
August 2002
- Statement
by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson (Excerpt),
23. August 2002
- Statement
by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson (Excerpt),
16. July 2002
- Statement
by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Spokesperson (Excerpt),
June 18, 2002
- Adoption
of new resolutions on Iraq. Statement by the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, 17. May 2002
- Sanctions
regime against Iraq, Statement by the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs Spokesperson, 7. May 2002
- Statement
by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, 7.
April 2002
- Statement
by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, 19.
February 2002
Russia
- Statement
by Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Igor Ivanov,
18. March 2003
- Russian
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Georgy Mamedov's ITAR-TASS
Interview on the Situation Around Iraq and on the DPRK Nuclear
Program, 18. March 2003
- Joint
Statement by Russia, France and Germany , 15. March
2003
- Statement
by Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Igor Ivanov at UN Security
Council Meeting, 5. February 2003
- Joint
U.S.-Russia Statement on Iraq, 22. November 2002
- Draft
of the Russia Resolution on Iraq (pdf), October 2002
- Address
by Foreign Minister I. Ivanov at the 57th UN General
Assembly, 20. September 2002
- Statement
by Foreign Ministry regarding the Consent by Iraq's Leadership
to the Deployment in the Country of UN Inspectors' Activity
Related to Monitoring the Non-Resumption of Iraqi Weapons of
Mass Destruction Programs, 17. September 2002
- Transcript
of Replies by Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov to Journalists' Questions
at Press Conference in UN, 17. September 2002
- Boris
Malakhov, Deputy Official Spokesman of Russia's Ministry of
Foreign Affairs Answers a Question from ITAR-TASS News Agency
Regarding US President George W. Bush's Speech at the 57th Session
of the UN General Assembly, 13. September 2002
- Transcript
of Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov Interview on Vremya ORT News
Program, 10. September 2002
- Alexander
Yakovenko, the Official Spokesman of Russia's Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Answers a Question from ITAR-TASS News Agency Regarding
the Bombing of Facilities in Western Iraq by US and British
Aircraft, 6. September 2002
- Transcript
of Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov Remarks at Joint Press
Conference Following Talks with Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji
Sabri, Moscow, 2. September 2002
- Boris
Malakhov, Deputy Official Spokesman of Russia's Ministry of
Foreign Affairs answers a question from a number of
news agencies about russian-iraqi trade and economic cooperation,
19. August 2002
- Foreign
Minister Igor Ivanov Answers a Question from Interfax News Agency
About the Situation Around Iraq, 7. August 2002
- Concerning
Reports on a Marked Intensification of the Bombings of Iraqi
Territory in the so Called Southern No-Fly Zone by the US and
British Air Forces, 15. July 2002
- Alexander
Yakovenko, the Official Spokesman of Russia's Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Answers Questions from Interfax News Agency
Regarding the Statement of US President George W. Bush on Iraq,
9. July 2002
- In
Connection with Problems in Implementing UN Humanitarian Program
for Iraq, 17. June 2002
- Speech
by Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov at a Joint Session of
the International Affairs Committees of the State Duma and Federation
Council, 21. May 2002
- On
the Consent of the Iraqi Leadership to Accept the Provisions
of UN Security Council Resolution 1409, 16. May 2002
- On
the UN Security Council Resolution on Iraq, 14. May
2002
- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander
Saltanov's Reply to an ITAR-TASS Question about Iraq,
29. April 2002)
- Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander
Saltanov Meets with Representatives of Russian Business,
April 2002
- On the Message of Greetings by Russian
President Vladimir Putin to the Participants of the Arab Summit
Conference, March 2002
- Russian-American
Consultations on Iraq, March 2002
- Transcript of Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Igor
Ivanov's Remarks at Joint Press Conference with Tariq Aziz,
Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq, Moscow, 24. January
2002
- Russian-American
Consultations on Iraqi Problems (January, 2002)
United Kingdom
- PM
Blair and Australian Premier agree on Iraqi reconstruction,
07 May 2003
- Press
conference: PM Tony Blair and Kofi Annan 'The importance of
the UN in post-conflict Iraq', 16 April 2003
- Prime
Minister Tony Blair: "A strategy for peace in Iraq",
14 April 2003
- Press
conference: PM Tony Blair and President George Bush,
08 April 2003
- Press
briefing of Prime Minister's Official Spokesman, 31
March 2003
- President
Bush, Prime Minister Blair Hold Press Availability,
27 March 2003
- Prime
Minister's statement, opening a debate on Iraq in Parliament,
18 March 2003
- PM
outlines vision for Iraq and the Iraqi people, 17. March
2003
- Press
Availability with President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, President
Aznar, and Prime Minister Barroso - the Azores, Portugal,
16 March 2003
- Moment
of choice for Iraq and the United Nations, Statement
by the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, at the UN Security Council,
New York, 5 February 2003
- Prime
Minister Tony Blair's statement to Parliament, 3. February
2003
- Iraq
- its infrastructure of concealment, deception and intimidation,
January 2003 (pdf)
- Jack
Straw's Statement on Iraq after Weapons Inspectors' Report,
19. December 2002
- Statement
by Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary – explaining the British position
on the Iraqi weapons declaration, 18. December 2002
- Jack
Straw's comments on the Oil for Food programme, 24.
November 2002
- The
dishonest case for war on Iraq - A Counter Dossier;
Alan Simpson and Dr. Glen Rangwala, 29. September 2002
- Hon Phil Goff: British
Concerns About Iraq WMD Capacity Best Met in First Instance
by Readmission of Inspection Teams, 25 September
2002
- Iraq's
Weapons of Mass Destruction – The Assessment of the British
Government, 24. September 2002
- Statement
by the Foreign Secretary on Iraq, 20. September 2002
- Remarks
by the Foreign Secretary on Iraq, 19. September 2002
- Jack
Straw Comments on Iraqi offer to re-admit weapons inspectors,
17. September 2002
- "A
clear hard choice about Iraq" Interview by Foreign Secretary
Jack Straw, 15. September 2002
- "Security
is not an option, it is a necessity". Straw at the UN
General Assembly, 14. September 2002
- "Action
against Iraq" Speech on Iraq by the Prime Minister Tony
Blair (Excerpts), 10. September 2002
- Press
Conference by Prime Minister Tony Blair (Excerpts),
25. July 2002
- Oral
answers on Iraq, non-conventional weapons and the UN inspectorate,
House of Lords, 25. July 2002.
- "Troops
in Afghanistan and action against Iraq", Interview by
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, 24. March 2002
- "Removing
the threat of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction", Article
by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, 5. March 2002
- Statement
by the Prime Minister on Iraq, 17. February 2001
United States of America
- President
Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended,
01 May 2003
- Press
conference: PM Tony Blair and President George Bush,
08 April 2003
- Statement
of Support from Coalition, March 26, 2003
- "The
Coalition" an Op-Ed from Dr. Condoleezza Rice, The Wall
Street Journal on March 26, 2003
- President
Bush, Prime Minister Blair Hold Press Availability,
27 March 2003
- President
Bush Addresses the Nation, 19. March 2003
- Text
of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate,
18. March 2003
- President
Says Saddam Hussein Must Leave Iraq Within 48 Hours, Remarks
by the President in Address to the Nation, 17. March
2003
- Press
Availability with President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, President
Aznar, and Prime Minister Barroso - the Azores, Portugal,
16 March 2003
- Draft
resolution on Iraq: text, 24. February 2003
- Press
Briefing by Ari Fleischer, 14. February 2003
- President
Bush: "World Can Rise to This Moment" 7. February 2003
- U.S.
Secretary of State Colin Powell Addresses the U.N. Security
Council, 5. February 2003
- President
Bush Speech at the Devos Performance Hall Grand Rapids, Michigan
, 29. January 2003
- President
Bush Speech "State of the Union" U.S. Capitol , 28.
Januray 2003
- News
Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers, 8. January
2003
- Apparatus
of Lies - Saddam’s Disinformation and Propaganda 1990-2003
- What
Does Disarmament Look Like? The White House, January
2003
- Iraq:
A Population Silenced, U.S. Department of State Bureau
of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Washington, DC December
2002
- Iraq
- From Fear to Freedom; U.S. Department of State - International
Information Program
- Radio
Address by the President to the Nation, 7. December
2002
- Joint
U.S.-Russia Statement on Iraq, 22. November 2002
- Draft
of a U.S.-British Resolution on Iraq, 23. October 2002
- President
Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat, 9. October 2002
- US
draft for an new UN-Resolution, 3. October 2002
- Iraq's
Weapons of Mass Destuction, Director of Central Intelligence,
October 2002
- President
Bush Discusses Iraq with Congressional Leaders, 26.
September 2002
- President
Bush to send Iraq Resolution to Congress Today, 19.
September 2002
- "...
zum Gebrauch der US-Truppen gegen Irak zu ermächtigen",
Bushs Resolutions-Entwurf für den US-Kongress im Wortlaut,
19. September 2002
- Remarks
by the President in Address to the UN - General Assembly,
12. September 2002
- Vice
President Speaks at VFW 103rd National Convention Remarks by
the Vice President to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National
Convention, 26. August 2002
- Prepared
testimony of CIA-Director George Tenet to the Senate Armed Services
Committee (Excerpts), 19. March 2002
- U.S.
Bombing Watch: When was the last time the U.S. Bombed Iraq?,
(since March 2000)
Other states
Algeria
Australia
Bahrain
Egypt
Germany
- Erklärung
der Bundesregierung anlässlich der Kampfhandlungen gegen den
Irak, 20. March 2003
- Speech
by Federal Foreign Minister Fischer to the United Nations Security
Council (pdf) - Rede
von Bundesaußenminister Fischer vor dem Sicherheitsrat der Vereinten
Nationen, New York, 19. March 2003
- Joint
Statement by Russia, France and Germany , 15. March
2003
- "Wir
bleiben beim Nein"- Interview von Bundesaußenminister
Fischer mit der Wochenzeitung "Die Zeit", u.a. zu Irak
und zu den transatlantischen Beziehungen, 20. Februar 2003
- Es
gibt noch eine Alternative zum Krieg; Erklärung Deutschlands,
Frankreichs und Russlands, 10. Februar 2003
- Statement
Joschka Fischer at the Public Meeting of the Security Council
on the situation between Iraq and Kuwait, 5. February
2003
- Bundeskanzler
Schröder: Irak-Konflikt im Sicherheitsrat lösen,
29. January 2003
- "Entwicklung
des Irak-Konflikts" Erklärung der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz
zum Irak-Konflikt, 20. January 2003
- Excerpts
from an ARD Television interview given by Foreign Minister Fischer
on the subject of action against Iraq and German-US relations,
27. September 2002
- Statement
by Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer (57th Session of
the UN General Assembly, Excerpt), 14. September 2002
- Remarks
by Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer (Excerpts), 7. August
2002
- Remarks
by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and U.S. President George Bush,
Jr., 23. May 2002
- Statement
by Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, 15. May 2002
India
Indonesia
Iran
- Statement
by Foreign Minister H.E. Dr. Kamal Kharrazi, before
the Meeting of NAM Coordinating Bureau (Excerpt), 18. September,
2002
- Statement
by Foreign Minister H.E. Kamal Kharrazi, before the
Annual Coordination Meeting of the OIC Foreign Ministers (Excerpt),
17. September 2002
- Iran
opposes war on Iraq, slams U.S. crusade, Tehran Times,
16. September 2002
- Iran-Saudi summit: Khatami,
Abdullah want diplomatic option on Iraq, 16. September
2002
Iraq
- The
activities of the UNMOVIC & the IAEA Inspection Teams (updated
every day)
- Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein’s Speech On Army Day, 6. January
2003
- Documents
on the Relations between Iraq and the UN (16.December
1998 - 17. September 2002)
- various
Statements by the Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Iraq
completely free of nuclear, biological chemical Weapons, Iraq
foreign Minister tells General Assembly (Fifty-seventh
UN-General Assembly Plenary; 16th Meeting), 19. September
2002
- Letter
from the Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri to the UN Secretary-General,
(Doc. No. S/2002/1034), 16. September 2002
- Letter
to the UN regarding talks and inspections, (Doc. No.
S/2002/939), 15. August 2002
- Letter
from Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri to the UN Secretary-General,
1. August 2002
- "The
Iraqi Legitimate Questions and The Security Council Obligations",
Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate, 31. July 2002
- Letter
from the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations,
11. June 2002
- Letter
from the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations,
29. April 2002
- US
War Crimes Against Iraq, Arabs and Peoples of the World Irrefutable
Facts, March 2001
- Factual Reports about Iraq's implementation of its obligations
under Para (22) and Para (C) of the UNSC Resolution 687 (1991)
in the field of
Iraq
implements its previous nuclear programme - related obligations
under Para (C) of the UNSC Resolution 687 (1991), Circa
1998
- The
Iraqi Presidency
- Permanent Mission
of Iraq to the United Nations
Kurdish Statements
- Kurdish
leader welcomes new UN-Coordinator – New Memorandum to the United
Nations from Kurdistan Regional Goverment. Kurdistan
Newsline, Special Dispatch, 6. August 2002
- Nechirvan Barzani: The
future Iraq must resolve governing system crisis and settle
the Kurdish issue, 10. June 2002
- Nechirvan Barzani, The
head of the Arbil-based Kurdistan regional government: The future
Iraq must resolve governing system crisis and settle the Kurdish
issue, in: Iraqi Kurdistan Dispatch, 1. June
2002
- Head
of PUK-led Kurdistan regional government, Dr. Barham
Salih (Interview), 11. May 2002
- Abdulaziz Ta'ib Ahmed Minister of Education, Kurdistan
Regional Government in Irbil, northern Iraq (Interview).
MEIB, Vol. 4 No. 1 January 2002
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Oman
Saudi Arabia
- Prince
Saud Al-Faisal speaks at press conference, 8. January
2003
- Arabs
should have final say on Iraq, 25. December 2002
- Saudi Cabinet weekly meeting: Iraq
urged to cooperate with UN Inspectors, 18. November
2002
- Iran-Saudi summit: Khatami,
Abdullah want diplomatic option on Iraq, 16. September
2002
- Prince
Saud Al-Faisal stresses that it is unwise to use force,
6. September 2002
- Saudi
foreign minister says Iraq attack 'unwise',
Reuters, Posted on Wed, Aug. 28, 2002
- Interview
with Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Saudi Minster of Foreign Affairs
(Excerpt), 11. August 2002
South Africa
Syria
Turkey
Vatican City
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Studies and Reports
- Verantwortliche
der Kirchen vereint gegen einen Krieg im Irak, 5. Februar
2003
- Irak-Resolution;
Treffen des Rates der Sozialistischen Internationale
Rom, Italien, 20. – 21. Januar 2003
- Nile Gardiner: How
the U.S. Should Respond to a Shift in French Policy on Iraq
(Heritage Research) Executive Memorandum #850, 14. January 2003
- Guiding Principles
for U.S. Post-Conflict Policy in Iraq (Council on Foreign
Relations and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
of Rice University), 2002
- Daniel L. Byman/ John R. Wise: The
Persian Gulf in the Coming Decade. Trends, Threats, and Opportunities
(RAND), 2002
- UN
assessment of likely humanitarian scenarios (von CASI
zur Verfügung gestellt), 10. December 2002 (pdf)
- Nordhaus, William: The
Economic Consequences of a War with Iraq, November 2002
- Medact: Collateral
Damage: the health and environmental costs of war on Iraq
- On
the Brink of War: A Recipe for a Humanitarian Disaster
(Report from the Caritas Internationalis visit to Iraq), 31.
October 2002
- David Cortright, George A. Lopez, Alistair Millar: Winning
without War; Sensible Security Options for Dealing with Iraq
(Sanctions and Security Project of the Fourth Freedom Forum/
Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies). October
2002
- Michael E. O'Hanlon: War
Against Saddam's Regime: Winnable but No Cakewalk, 2.
October, 2002
- Kenneth Katzman: Iraq
- Weapons Threat, Compliance, Sanctions, and U.S. Policy.
Congressional Research Service, Issue Brief for Congress, 27.
September 2002
- Alfred B. Prados: Iraq:
Divergent Views on Military Action (Report for Congress),
16. September 2002
- Iraq
- A new Approach, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, August 2002
- Alfred B. Prados: Iraq
– Former and Recent Military Confrontations with the United
States. Congressional Research Service, Issue Brief
for Congress, 6. September 2002
- Center for Defense Information Washington
Military Action in Iraq: 1990-2002, 6. September 2002
- Center for Defense Information Fact Sheet: Iraqi
Armed Forces, 5 September 2002
- Save the Children UK: The
Humanitarian Implications of Military Action against Iraq.
Position statement of 4 September 2002.
- Kenneth Katzman: Iraq:
U.S. Efforts to Change the Regime (Report for Congress),
3. September 2002
- Kenneth Katzman: The
Persian Gulf: Issues for U.S. Policy (Report for Congress),
12. August 2002
- Center for Strategic and International Studies: Iraqi
War Fighting Capabilities: A Dynamic Net Assessment,
21. July 2002
- Anthony H. Cordesman: If
We Fight Iraq: Iraq and The Conventional Military Balance (Center
for Strategic and International Studies), 28. June 2002
- Anthony H. Cordesman: If
We Fight Iraq: Iraq and Its Weapons of Mass Destruction (Center
for Strategic and International Studies), 28. June 2002
- William J. Bender: Strategic
Implications for U.S. Policy in Iraq: What Now? USAWC
Strategy Research Project, 9. April 2002
- Kenneth Katzmann: Iraq
– U.S. Efforts to Change the Regime. CRS Report for
Congress, 22 March 2002
- Sami G. Hajjar: U.S.
Military Presencs in the Gulf. Challenges and Prospects.
Strategic Studies Institute (SSI), March 2002
- Anthony H. Cordesman: Proliferation
in the “Axis of Evil”: North Korea, Iran, and Iraq.
(pp. 38-63) Strategic Studies Institute (SSI), 30. January
2002
- Anthony H. Cordesman: If
We Fight Iraq: The Lessons of the Fighting in Afghanistan (Center
for Strategic and International Studies), 7. December 2001
- David Isenberg: Imperial
Overreach Washington’s Dubious Strategy to Overthrow
- Saddam
Hussein (Policy Analysis No. 360), 17. November 2001
- Morton H. Halperin and Geoffrey Kemp: A
Report on U.S. Policy Options Towards Iraq (Nixon Center),
June 2001
- Michael J. Smith: Security
Challenge or Business Bonanza: United States Arms Transfers
to the Persian Gulf. USAWC Strategy Research Project,
5. April 2001
- Stephen T. Hosmer: Operations
Against Enemy Leaders (RAND), 2001
- Milton Leitenberg: Deadly
Unknowns about Iraq's Biological Weapons Program (Center
for International and Security Studies), 9. Februar 2000
- Daniel Byman, Matthew Waxman: Confronting
Iraq: U.S. Policy and the Use of Force Since the Gulf War
(RAND), 2000
- David Albright and Kevin O'Neill: Iraq's
Efforts to Acquire Information about Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Related
Technologies from the United States (Institute for Science
and International Security), 12. November, 1999
- Stephen C. Pelletiere: Landpower
and Dual Containment: Rethinking America's Policy in the Gulf.
Strategic Studies Institute (SSI), November 1999
- Shahram Chubin, Jerrold D. Green, F. Stephen Larrabee: NATO’s
New Strategic Concept and Peripheral Contingencies: The Middle
East. (RAND), 1999
- Sami G. Hajjar: Security
Implications of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
in the Middle East. 17. December 1998
- Steve Bowman: Iraqi
Chemical & Biological Weapons (CBW) Capabilities (Congressional
Research Service Reports). April 1998
- Kenneth Katzman: Searching
for a stable peace in the Persian Gulf; Strategic Studies
Institute (SSI), 2. February 1999
- Shahram Chubin: Eliminating
Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Persian Gulf Case;
Henry L. Stimson Center, March 1999
-
Beth Osborne Daponte: A
Case Study in Estimating Casualties from War and ItsAftermath:
The 1991 Persian Gulf War, Physicians for Social Responsibility
Quarterly, 3/2 (1993), 57-66.
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