United Nations Special Commission

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United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) was a United Nations organisation performing arms inspections in Iraq after the Gulf War.

Its director between 1991 and 1997 was Rolf Ekéus and from 1997 to 1999 Richard Butler. The successor of UNSCOM is the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission.

See also: Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction, Operation Rockingham.

See also

• Rihab Rashid Taha

External links

• United Nations on UNSCOM (http://www.un.org/Depts/unscom/)

• The Hijacking of UNSCOM (http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=mj99wright)ja:国連大量破壊兵器廃棄特別委員会