The General Conference,

(a) Recalling United Nations Security Council resolutions 687, 707 and 715,

(b) Recalling further the resolutions of the thirty-fifth (1991), thirty-sixth (1992) and thirty-seventh (1993) General Conferences (GC(XXXV)/RES/568, GC(XXXVI)/RES/579 and GC(XXXVII)/RES/626), and the resolution of the thirty-eighth (1994) General Conference (GC(XXXVIII)/RES/19), which stressed the need for Iraq to co-operate fully with the Agency in achieving the complete and long-term implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions,

(c) Reaffirming the need for full implementation by Iraq of Security Council resolutions 687, 707 and 715,

(d) Taking note of the Director General's report contained in document GC(39)/10 and of his oral statement to the thirty-ninth General Conference, and

(e) Deeply concerned by the evidence, outlined in document GC(39)/10/Add.1, that Iraq in 1990 initiated a crash programme to build a nuclear weapon,

1. Commends the Director General and the Agency's Action Team for their strenuous efforts to implement Security Council resolutions 687, 707 and 715, and in particular their detection and destruction or otherwise rendering harmless of equipment and materials which could have been used for nuclear weapons, and requests them to continue their efforts;

2. Welcomes the work done by the Agency towards establishing a mechanism for monitoring future sales and supplies of designated items to Iraq;

3. Notes that with the establishment of a continuous presence of Agency inspectors in Iraq the plan for the ongoing monitoring and verification of Iraq's compliance with its obligations under relevant Security Council resolutions became operational as of the end of August 1994;

4. Urges Iraq to co-operate fully with the Agency in achieving the complete and long-term implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions, especially regarding the Ongoing Monitoring and Verification Plan;

5. Condemns Iraq for having, since 1991, withheld from the Agency information about its nuclear weapon programme, in violation of its obligations under Security Council resolutions 687, 707 and 715;

6. Demands that Iraq hand over to the Agency without further delay any currently undisclosed nuclear-weapon-related equipment, material or information, as called for in Security Council resolutions 687, 707 and 715;

7. Stresses that the Agency will continue to exercise its right to investigate further any aspects of Iraq's past nuclear weapons capability, in particular as regards the new information obtained by the Agency in August 1995 and any further relevant information that Iraq may still be withholding from the Agency; and

8. Requests the Director General to report the views of the General Conference to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and to report to the Board of Governors and to the fortieth regular session of the General Conference on his efforts to implement Security Council resolutions 687, 707 and 715 and decides to remain seized of this issue.

22 September 1995 Agenda item 26 GC(39)/OR.9, paras 63 and 64