Prior to 2002, the Security Council had passed 16 resolutions on Iraq. In 2002, the Security Council … See more

Following the passage of Resolution 1441, on 8 November 2002, weapons inspectors of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission returned to Iraq for the first time since being withdrawn … See more

UN Chief Inspector Hans Blix, on 14 February 2003, presented a report to the Security Council. Blix gave an update of the situation in Iraq, and he stated that the Iraqis were now more proactive in their cooperatio… See more

On 7 March 2003, Blix made his twelfth quarterly report on the status of UNMOVIC's efforts to verify Iraq's disarmament. A transcript of his presentation is available at CNN. See more

As George W. Bush gave Saddam Hussein an ultimatum to leave power, the UN pulled out all the inspectors from Iraq. Days later the invasion began. See more

• United States - The US maintained that Iraq was not cooperating with UN inspectors and had not met its obligations to 17 UN resolutions. The US felt that Resolution 1441 called for the immediate, total unilate… See more

In 2004 and 2005 Colin Powell acknowledged that much of his 2003 UN presentation was inaccurate:
I looked at the four [sources] that [the CIA] gave me for [the mobile bio-labs], and they stood behin… See more