International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference (Unofficial electronic version)	GC(40)/RES/21 September 1996 GENERAL Distr. ENGLISH
Fortieth regular session Agenda item 22 (GC(40)/22)

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), thirty-seventh (1993), thirty-eighth (1994) and thirty-ninth (1995) General Conferences (GC(XXXV)/RES/568, GC(XXXVI)/RES/579, GC(XXXVII)/RES/626, GC(XXXVIII)/RES/19 and GC(39)/RES/5),

(c) Taking note of the Director General's report contained in document GC(40)/13, his oral statement to the fortieth General Conference, his reports on the Agency's twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth on-site inspections in Iraq (GOV/INF/781 and GOV/INF/783) and his other reports to the Board of Governors and the Security Council (GOV/INF/776, GOV/INF/791 and GOV/2846),

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

(e) Noting with concern that Iraq has withheld information from the Agency's Action Team in violation of its obligations under Security Council resolutions 687, 707 and 715, and

(f) While noting that Iraq has adopted over the last twelve months a more constructive approach towards the Agency's Action Team, is concerned that Iraq has imposed restrictions on the Action Team's rights of access,

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 requests them to continue their efforts;

2. Invites the Director General and the Action Team to continue to pursue vigorously the implementation of the Ongoing Monitoring and Verification Plan;

3. Welcomes the establishment of an export/import monitoring mechanism under United Nations Security Council resolution 1051;

4. Urges Iraq to co-operate fully with the Action Team in achieving the complete and long-term implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions;

5. Urges Iraq to resolve remaining ambiguities, inconsistencies and contradictions in the revised draft of the Full, Final and Complete Declaration;

6. Demands that Iraq hand over to the Action Team without further delay any currently undisclosed nuclear-weapon-related equipment, material and information and allow the Action Team immediate, unconditional and unrestricted rights of access in accordance with Security Council resolution 707;

7. Stresses that the Agency's Action Team will continue to exercise its right to investigate further any aspects of Iraq's past nuclear weapons capability, in particular as regards 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 forty-first 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.