Iraq was granted membership to the league of nations in 1932 and due to his fluency in foreign languages, particularly French, the then diplomatic language, Tawfiq al-suwaidi was chosen as Iraq's first permanent representative.

In September, Britain announced that it would support Iraq's inclusion in the League of Nations, this signaled the beginning of the end of their direct control of the region.

Al Rubaie was the candidate of choice in Iraq's negotiations with the rest of the Arab League, Iran and Nato.

The treaty, of twenty-five years ' duration, was to come into force upon Iraq's admission to the League of Nations.

** The United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, makes a surprise visit to Iraq and expresses support for an Arab League conference discussing cooperation with Iraq's many factions.

* 1990 – Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

* 17-Dr. David Kelly, 59 ( suicide ), former United Nations weapons inspector who was accused of leaking information to the BBC about Britain's dossier on Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction.

However, in a private meeting with Salah Omar Al-Ali, Iraq's permanent ambassador to the United Nations, he revealed that he intended to invade and occupy a large part of Iran within months.

INC's political platform promised " human rights and rule of law within a constitutional, democratic, and pluralistic Iraq "; preservation of Iraq's territorial integrity, and complete compliance with international law, including United Nations resolutions relating to Iraq.

UNMOVIC was to replace the former United Nations Special Commission ( UNSCOM ) and continue with the latter's mandate to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction, and to operate a system of ongoing monitoring and verification to check Iraq's compliance with its obligations not to reacquire the same weapons prohibited to it by the Security Council.

On 19 December, Hans Blix reported before the United Nations and stated in regards to Iraq's 7 December report ( unedited version ): " During the period 1991 – 1998, Iraq submitted many declarations called full, final and complete.

United Nations Special Commission ( UNSCOM ) was an inspection regime created by the United Nations to ensure Iraq's compliance with policies concerning Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction after the Gulf War.

United Nations Special Commission ( UNSCOM ) was an inspection regime created with the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 in April 1991 to oversee Iraq's compliance with the destruction of Iraqi chemical, biological, and missile weapons facilities and to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency ’ s efforts to eliminate nuclear weapon facilities all in the aftermath of the Gulf War.

In his February 9, 2003, column for The Wall Street, Friedman also pointed to the lack of compliance with the United Nations Security Council Resolution regarding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction: " The French position is utterly incoherent.

Since Iraq's invasion in 1990 of Kuwait, Iraqi Airways was grounded by the United Nations ' sanctions against the country.

* The UN Secretary General rejects Iraq's August 2 proposal as the " wrong work program ", but recommends that Iraq allow the return of weapons inspectors in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1284, passed in 1999.

The contemporaneous justification for the strikes was Iraq's failure to comply with United Nations Security Council resolutions as well as their interference with United Nations Special Commission inspectors.

Its duties included appointing representatives to the United Nations, appointing interim ministers to Iraq's vacant cabinet positions, and drafting a temporary constitution known as the Transitional Administrative Law ( TAL ), which would be used to govern Iraq until a permanent constitution could be written and approved by the general electorate.

United Nations resolution 1483 transferred the authority to authorize expenditures from Iraq's oil revenue from the United Nations to the Coalition Provisional Authority — under certain conditions, including:

When authority to manage the revenue from Iraq's oil on behalf of the Iraqi people through United Nations resolution, that authority was transferred under certain conditions.

He was later Coordinator for United Nations Humanitarian and Economic Assistance Programmes Relating to the People of Afghanistan and Executive Delegate of the Secretary-General for a United Nations Inter-Agency Humanitarian Programme, which dealt with problems of Iraq's border areas.

After the first Gulf War, Iraq's zoos suffered from the United Nations Iraq sanctions, limited particular foods, medicines, and vaccines.

She had been expected to become Iraq's new Ambassador to the United Nations

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's primary justifications included a charge that Kuwaiti territory was in fact an Iraqi province, and that annexation was retaliation for " economic warfare " Kuwait had waged through slant drilling into Iraq's oil supplies.

Tactics used included trench warfare, machine gun posts, bayonet charges, use of barbed wire across trenches and on no-man's land, human wave attacks and Iraq's extensive use of chemical weapons such as mustard gas against Iranian troops and civilians as well as Iraqi Kurds.

A secularist, Dr. Pachachi put together a list of candidates called the Assembly of Independent Democrats ( his party Democratic Centrist Tendency was included ) to contest Iraq's January 2005 legislative election.

Mustafa Barzani and the government would attempt ineffective negotiations, and after Barzani's autonomy request which included much of Iraq's oil fields around Kirkuk and Mosul, the government moved against the KDP in northern Iraq.

The major obstacle was Iraq's insistence on a 20 percent equity participation in the company ; this figure had been included in the original TPC concession to the Turks and had been agreed upon at Sanremo for the Iraqis.

He admitted fault in allowing a disputed claim about Iraq's quest for nuclear weapons material to be included in Bush's January 28, 2003 State of the Union Address ( see Yellowcake forgery ).

The alliance was created by the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq ( the at the time largest Shi ' a party ) to contest in the January 2005 and December 2005 under the name United Iraqi Alliance ( UIA ; ; transliterated: al-I ' tilāf al -` Irāqī al-Muwaḥḥad ), when it included all Iraq's major Shi ' a parties.

These bipartisan reports included " Findings about Iraq's WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How they Compare with Prewar Assessments " and " The Use by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi National Congress ".

On 18 September 2005, several changes to the text of the constitution were approved by Iraq's parliament, and will be included in the version published for ratification by the public.

The brigade's operational environment was roughly the size of South Carolina, had 2. 8 million citizens and included Iraq's fourth-largest city, An Nasiriyah.

According to the findings of Lord Butler of Brockwell's Review of Weapons of Mass Destruction, the reduction of operational capabilities in the Middle East and of the Requirements division's ability to challenge the quality of the information the Middle East Controllerate was providing weakened the Joint Intelligence Committee's estimates of Iraq's nonconventional weapons programmes.

The article claimed, based on Ritter's allegations, that the Rockingham cell was at the center of various British and US intelligence organisations collecting information on Iraq's WMD, and that the unit dealt with intelligence obtained from a variety of sources, including Iraqi defectors and the UN arms inspections organisation in Iraq UNSCOM, which Rockingham had penetrated.

It did, however, continue to provide UNMOVIC and the IAEA with all-source UK intelligence assessments of the extent of Iraq's nuclear, biological, chemical and ballistic missile programmes, and information about sites of potential significance.

In 1995, he defected from Iraq with his brother and their wives and his brother gave information to UNSCOM, the CIA and MI6 about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

They have paid $ 2 million into his Viennese bank account for information about Iraq's military strength, but he has gone to ground since the invasion.

* Operation Sphinx: A Mossad operation where Iraqi nuclear scientists were recruited while in France to gather information about Iraq's nuclear reactor Osiraq, ultimately ending with the Israeli air strike in 1981.

Kelso attended the 1991 Tailhook Association meeting in Las Vegas ( his second time ) at the urging of his senior aviation advisors to gain first-hand information from aviators who were part of Operation Desert Storm following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

The CIA stated in the Scope Note: Our knowledge of Iraq's ties to terrorism is evolving ... This paper's conclusions-especially regarding the difficult and elusive question of the exact nature of Iraq's relations with al-Qaeda-are based on currently available information that is at times contradictory and derived from sources with varying degrees of reliability ... While our understanding of Iraq ’ s overall connections to al-Qaeda has grown considerably, our appreciation of these links is still emerging.

" The report concluded that " Statements ... regarding Iraq's contacts with al-Qa ' ida were substantiated by intelligence information.