For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 16, 2002
Statement by the Deputy Press Secretary
As the President said, the UN Security Council needs to decide how to
enforce its own resolutions, which the Iraqi regime has defied for more
than a decade.
This will require a new, effective UN Security Council resolution
that will actually deal with the threat Saddam Hussein poses to the
Iraqi people, to the region, and to the world. That is the course the
Security Council is on, and the United States is engaged in
consultations with Council members and other partners in New York at
this time.
This is not a matter of inspections. It is about disarmament of
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and the Iraqi regime's compliance
with all other Security Council resolutions.
This is a tactical step by Iraq in hopes of avoiding strong UN
Security Council action. As such, it is a tactic that will fail.
It is time for the Security Council to act.
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