Sentences with phrase «of weapons inspectors»

«Hans Blix and his team of weapons inspectors had found no weapons of mass destruction, were making progress and expected to complete their task in a matter of months.»

«Cameron never realised the importance of the United Nations, the importance of the weapons inspectors and the importance of a second vote specifically to authorise military action.»

Using De Kooning licks and Rauschenberg drips, his work splices references to famous 19th - and 20th - century paintings into scenes that depict real people and situations: William Burroughs in exile in Tangiers, the mysterious death of weapons inspector David Kelly in the Oxfordshire countryside, the Greenham Common protest, the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Not exact matches

Inspectors from the global chemical weapons watchdog OPCW were due to try to visit Douma later on Saturday to inspect the site of the suspected gas attack.

Officials from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons told the Obama administration early this year that its inspectors had found traces of two banned chemical weapons during an inspection of the Syrian government's Scientific Studies and Research Center in the district of Barzeh near Damascus, two administration officials told us.

Inspectors racing to verify the suspected chemical weapons attack on Douma last month are to take the unprecedented step of exhuming the bodies of...

On October 2, David Kay, the U.S. inspector in charge of finding weapons of mass destruction, reported to Congress that he had found no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, although their existence was one of the major rationales for going to war with Iraq.

«The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998.

He lies and cheats; he snubs the mandate and authority of international weapons inspectors; and he games the system to keep buying time against enforcement of the just and legitimate demands of the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States and our allies.

The invasion is arguably an act of aggression, or a war crime, not because no war was declared, but because the UN Security Council was not in agreement that Iraq was not fulfilling its obligations to UN weapons inspectors and was in possessions of WMD's.

The UN inspectors were fired on by a sniper as they made their way into the area yesterday, but they proceeded to one of five locations around Damascus where the weapon is thought to have been released

Ed Miliband told The Guardian that UN weapons inspectors should have been given more time to find out whether Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was a «war of choice, not of necessity», former weapons inspector Hans Blix said last night.

A team of doctors has cast serious doubt on the suicide of Dr David Kelly, the weapons inspector whose death prompted an independent inquiry.

His announced opposition comes after his fellow New York senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, announced she was backing what she called an «imperfect» agreement given the greater level of information that would be afforded to weapons inspectors.

The interrogator continued along this line, said the official, asking: «if you had no weapons of mass destruction then why not let the U.N. inspectors into your facilities?»

«Tensions rose after Ed Miliband said that at the time of the invasion in 2003, when he wass not an MP, he felt that Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, should have been given «more time».

«Zero knowledge» tests could let inspectors identify a nuclear weapon without learning the secrets of its design.

International inspectors must cope with the chaos of Syria's ongoing civil war, with at least a third of the declared chemical weapons sites reportedly located in contested areas.

A team of U.N. inspectors has found «clear and convincing evidence» that a chemical weapons attack using the nerve agent sarin killed a large number of civilians near Damascus on 21 August.

For teachers and school leaders, Ofsted has become what the first chief inspector, Chris Woodhead, wanted it to be — a weapon of fear and terror.

In the past, proof was difficult to obtain, but the advent of DNA testing has given inspectors a new weapon.

While many are renowned scientists (though very few from climate science) others are, for selected examples: Swedish Diplomat [and former weapons inspector], Nobel Prize winner in Literature, President of WWF International, Photographer and film producer, Mayor of Stockholm, EU parliamentarian, Professor of Social Sciences,.....

To take another example: if you have to delay the invasion of a country to search for WMD, to give the weapons inspectors already in the country time to pack up and leave, something in your information stream has gone horribly awry.

Russia says chemical weapons inspectors will be allowed into Douma, The Guardian China seeks trade firewall with U.S. allies in rush of ambassador meetings: sources, Reuters