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Arms control &
disarmament projects Implementation of country-specific verification Researcher: Andreas Persbo VERTIC monitors verification developments in several countries, including Iraq, Iran, Libya and North Korea. Implementation of verification in the Islamic Republic of Iran At present, this programme is supported by a small grant from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Foundation. Publications include: Thinking inside the box: exploring legal approaches to build confidence in Iran's nuclear programme', by Andreas Persbo, Verification Matters no 7, May 2007 'Use of voluntary transparency measures to increase trust in states' nuclear programmes: the case of Iran', by James Acton with Joanna Little, Verification Matters no 8, May 2007 'Iran's nuclear programme: a challenge for verification', by Andreas Persbo, Presentation to IRNA organized roundtable, 1 December 2006 'Iran's nuclear programme: A challenge for the nuclear non-proliferation regime, by Andreas Persbo', by Andreas Persbo, 10 December 2005 Iran and nuclear safeguards: establishing the facts and seeking compliance, by Wyn Q. Bowen, Verification Yearbook 2004 Implementation of verification in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) VERTIC is presently not doing funded work on the DPRK. The organization maintains an occasional watching brief. Publications include: Statement on the seismic event in North Korea on 9 October 2006 Testing times on the Korean Peninsula, by Andreas Persbo, Trust & Verify No. 120 North Korea: the challenge of verifying a moving target, by Kenneth Boutin, Verification Yearbook 2003 North Korean crisis: fallout for verification, by Kenneth Boutin, Trust & Verify No. 106, January/February 2003 Verifying a missile accord with North Korea, by Leon Sigal, Verification Yearbook 2002 Implementation of verification in the Republic of Iraq On 29 June 2007, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1762 terminating the mandate of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and reaffirming Iraq’s disarmament obligations under recent UN Security Council resolutions. Concurrent with its closure UNMOVIC published its ‘Compendium of Iraq’s Prescribed Weapons Programmes in the Chemical, Biological and Missile Areas’. It contains an account of Iraq’s missile programmes and its biological and chemical weapons, as well as assessments by the inspectors of the strengths and weaknesses of UNMOVIC’s verification activities. Sources include various types of imagery, declarations, databases, reports and other documents provided by Iraq. VERTIC’s Iraq weapons inspections database, compiled from the first inspection on 27 November 2002 until the last on 17 March 2003, provides as detailed a record of UNMOVIC inspections as possible at the time using open sources. It has, however, not been collated with the information in the UNMOVIC compendium. Publications include: ‘UNMOVIC: an overdue farewell’ in Trust and Verify, Issue Number 124, March-October 2007, p 14 UNMOVIC in Iraq: opportunity lost, by Trevor Findlay and Ben Mines, Verification Yearbook 2003 Iraq Survey Group takes up baton in hunt for WMD, by Ben Mines, Trust & Verify, no. 109, July-August 2003 Iraq's weapons: the US fails to best UNMOVIC. by Trevor Findlay and Ben Mines Trust & Verify no. 108, May-June 2003 UNMOVIC: progress, but to what end? by Ben Mines, Trust & Verify no. 107, March-April 2003 UNMOVIC: quality time in Iraq. by Alex Wood, Trust & Verify no. 106, January-February 2003 UNMOVIC’s balancing act. by Trevor Findlay, Trust & Verify no. 105, November-December 2002 UNMOVIC in Iraq: opportunity lost, by Trevor Findlay and Ben Mines, Verification Yearbook 2003 Verification under duress: the case of UNSCOM by Stephen Black, Verification Yearbook 2000 Implementation of verification in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Verifying Libya's nuclear disarmament, by Jack Boureston and Yana Feldman, Verification Yearbook 2004 Intelligence, verification and Iraq’s WMD, by Brian Jones, Verification Yearbook 2003 |
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