UN General Assembly
1998

and continues to cause the death of thousands of Iraqi citizens every month due to the lack of medicine and food and a grave deterioration in the infrastructures of the industrial, agricultural, health, education, service sectors and other areas. This situation calls for the strong condemnation of those who insist, for ulterior political motives, on continuing to inflict on the Iraqi people this destructive blockade, the tragic consequences of which are tantamount to internationally proscribed acts of genocide. Security Council resolution 687 (1991) contains two sets of obligations: those which must be fulfilled by Iraq, and those that require the Security Council to lift the blockade on Iraq when Iraq has met its obligations. The obligations imposed on Iraq concern disarmament. Briefly, they require the destruction, removal or rendering harmless, under the supervision of the United Nations Special Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency, of all weapons of mass destruction which were in Iraq’s possession. They enjoin Iraq to refrain from the production, possession, stockpiling, use or development of such weapons in the