Richard Butler Security Quotations

Like the Security Council, I take at face value their promise to offer full cooperation.

Obviously there was no movement and obviously the best and most constructive thing for me to do is to take this back to those who really run the show, namely the (U.N.) Security Council, and see where we go from there.

My job is to return to New York to report this stage of affairs to the Security Council. I can't go into details until I do that.

I am deeply concerned about the whole process. I have a message to convey from the Security Council to the Iraqis. I hope that they will commit themselves to the past cooperation with U.N. inspection teams.

My duty is to report what has happened to the Security Council and the United Nations. I'm going to New York to do that.

In light of this experience, that is, the absence of full cooperation by Iraq, it must regrettably be recorded again that the commission is not able to conduct the substantive disarmament work mandated to it by the Security Council and, thus, to give the council the assurances it requires with respect to Iraq's prohibited weapons programs.

I could have been in a position to report to the (U.N.) Security Council the end or very near end of the missile and chemical weapons files.