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08 March 2000
Secretary General Names Iraqi Weapons Commission Advisors;
Einhorn named U.S. Representative
By Judy Aita
Washington File United Nations Correspondent
United Nations -- Secretary General Kofi Annan sent to the Security
Council March 8 a list of 17 weapons experts to serve on the new board
of commissioners to advise the UN Monitoring, Verification and
Inspections Commission (UNMOVIC) for Iraq.
In the resolution establishing UNMOVIC as the successor for the UN
Special Commission overseeing the destruction of Iraqi weapons
(UNSCOM), the secretary general was instructed to consult with the
council on the group of advisors, called the College of Commissioners.
UNMOVIC Chairman Hans Blix of Sweden, who assumed his post on March 1,
will head the group. The commissioners are expected to meet several
times a year to review UNMOVIC's reports to the council.
Robert Einhorn, Assistant Secretary of State for Non-proliferation and
a former State Department arms control adviser, is the U.S.
representative on the commission.
Other commissioners are: Gunterio Heineken of Argentina, professor of
rocket and gun propulsion at the Technical High School of the Army;
Roque Monteleone-Neto of Brazil, a University of Sao Paulo professor
and Brazil's technical adviser for the biological weapons convention;
Paul Schulte of Britain, defense ministry director for proliferation
and arms control; Ronald Cleminson of Canada, an expert on monitoring
and verification of dangerous weapons; Cong Guang of China, deputy
director of the foreign ministry's department of international
organizations; Marjatta Rautio of Finland, chemical weapons expert at
the Finnish Institute for Verification of the Chemical Weapons
Convention; Therese Delpech of France, Atomic Energy Commission
director for strategic affairs; Reinhard Boehm of Germany, University
of Hohenheim scientist who worked on issues connected with anthrax;
Annaswamy Narayana Prasad of India, former director of the Bhabha
Atomic Research Center; Ambassador Takanori Kazuhara of Japan, former
director of the foreign ministry's disarmament division; Adigun Ade
Abjodan of Nigeria, special assistant to the president of Nigeria on
space, science, and technology; Ambassador Yuri Fedotov of Russia,
director of the foreign ministry's international organizations
department; Ambassador Cheikh Sylla of Senegal, member of the group
that drafted the treaty on Africa's nuclear weapons free zone;
Ambassador Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, chairman of the national committee
on disarmament; and Hannelore Hoope, chief of the United Nations
disarmament division dealing with weapons of mass destruction.
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