Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Lynne Jones (Labour), on Thursday, 8 January 2004, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 32 members in total.

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VERIFICATION OF WMD-RELATED CLAIMS BY THE US IRAQ SURVEY GROUP BY UNMOVIC

That this House expresses concern that according to its most recent quarterly report, the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), which conducted weapons inspections in Iraq prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom, is not being permitted to verify WMD-related claims made by the US Iraq Survey Group (ISG) weapons inspectors now operating in Iraq; notes that in October 2003, Mr David Kay testified before the US Congress that the ISG had not found evidence of Iraqi WMD stockpiles, nor had it found evidence of actual biological weapons production or active chemical and nuclear weapons programmes; further notes that Mr Kay did testify that the ISG had found dozens of WMD-related programme activities and significant amounts of equipment that had been concealed from UNMOVIC inspectors, but that despite these claims UNMOVIC has so far received no information on ISG activities other than Mr Kay's publicly available testimony before Congress; questions the reasons for withholding access from UNMOVIC to the full ICG progress report and the findings, documents, interviews and materials supporting and underlying the report; and calls on the UK Government to press for this material to be released to UNMOVIC immediately.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

384 

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Iraq Weapons Iraq Survey Group UN Monitoring Verification and Inspection Commission

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk