Topic: Measures to Prevent Terrorists from Acquiring Weapons of Mass Destruction
Country: Iraq
Delegate Name: Sally Wolf
School: Fishers High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Iraq position papers GLIMUN 2013 committees
The Republic of Iraq is already party to eight international conventions and protocols on non-proliferation and disarmament, the Geneva Protocol of 1925, the Biological Weapons Convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Safeguards agreement, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Additional Protocol, and the Hague Code of conduct. Iraq is also party to nine international conventions and protocols on counter-terrorism, including the Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed On Board Aircraft, the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the safety of Civil Aviation, the Convention on the prevention and Punishment of Crime against Internationally protected persons, including Diplomatic Agents, the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of violence at airports serving International Civil Aviation, the International Convention for the Suppression of the financing of terrorism, the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist, the International Convention for the Suppression acts of nuclear terrorism, and the Convention on physical protection of nuclear material.
In 2004, Iraq consented to the Security Council Resolution 1540, and to the required national reporting. In 2012, Iraq issued the National Monitoring Authority for Non-proliferation Act No. 48. The Iraqi National Monitoring Authority (INMA) has controlled the import and export of items that can be used to create weapons of mass destruction, to prevent illegal use. The INMA has also worked to educate individuals both inside and outside of Iraq on the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.
Iraq has supported contact with both the United Nations and the European Union within Iraq to prevent the risk of terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction.
To reduce the threat of terrorism, Iraq supports the criminalization of all support for terrorist networks. Iraq also encourages cooperation with regional bodies, international bodies, and international conventions and protocols.
To eliminate weapons of mass destruction, Iraq supports international agreements to regulate trade of weapons-usable technology and centers established by the European Union to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The Republic of Iraq seeks to prevent non-state entities from obtaining weapons of mass destruction through the UN Security Council Resolution 1540, and to develop international, regional, and sub-regional strategies regarding the prevention of weapons of mass destruction being used for terrorist purposes. Most importantly, Iraq encourages individual states to strengthen national measures against weapons of mass destruction. Iraq offers the INMA as a model for a national organization to counteract terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and supports national sovereignty when member states have established effective national organizations dealing with terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
The Republic of Iraq encourages the United Nations to facilitate regional organizations, as this is the most effective way of dealing with each region’s specific difficulties with counter-terrorism and avoids infringements on national sovereignty.
Works Referenced
"Iraq Designates National Authority For The Chemical Weapons Convention."Www.OPWC.org. Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, 16 Feb. 2009. Web. 11 Nov. 2013.
"Measures Taken by Iraq to Prevent Terrorists from Obtaining Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their Means of Delivery and Related Materials." REPORT OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL ON MEASURES TO PREVENT TERRORISTS FROM ACQUIRING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. UNODA, 2013. Web. 11 Nov. 2013
Tucker, Jonathon B. "James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies." Iraq Faces Major Challenges in Destroying Its Legacy Chemical Weapons. Monterey Institute of International Studies, 4 Mar. 2010. Web. 11 Nov. 2013.
