libertarian,
Thank you for your timely and important question. The political
unrest between the United States and Iraq is being mediated as best as
can be via the United Nations. The UN is sending weapons inspectors
to Iraq and this team is led by Dr. Hans Blix who is the Executive
Chairman of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
(UNMOVIC). This commission was established in 1999 to take over the
duties of the UN Special Committee as it relates to the disarmament of
Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction. The commission is made up of
the Executive Director and a 16 member College of Commissioners. The
members of the College of Commissioners and the countries they are
from are:
Adigun Ade Abiodun (Nigeria)
Reinhard Böhm (Germany)
Ronald Cleminson (Canada)
Thérèse Delpech (France)
Yuriy V. Fedotov (Russian Federation)
Kostyantyn Gryshchenko (Ukraine)
Gunterio G. Heineken (Argentina)
Hannelore Hoppe (United Nations - Department for Disarmament Affairs)
Li Junhua (China)
Takanori Kazuhara (Japan)
Roque Monteleone-Neto (Brazil)
Annaswamy Narayana Prasad (India)
Bryan Wells (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Cheikh Sylla (Senegal)
John S. Wolf (United States of America)
Along with the College of Commissioners, there are executive staff
members, http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/PrinStaffOff/PrStOf.htm. You
can see a full organizational chart of the UNMOVIC at
http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/documents/orgchart.htm
The actual inspection work for nuclear weapons is handled by the
International Atomic Energy Agency, based out of Austria. The members
of this team are full time empolyees of the IAEA. The IAEA team is
made up of 15 members from 11 countries.
The chemical and biological inspections are handled by a team of
scientists, experts with backgrounds in a wide and varying range of
subjects including missles, chemical and biological warfar. They
attend a month long training course in Vienna that covers health,
culture and language. An inspection team is typically made up of 6
inspection team members and 5 outside experts, who all attend the
training course. There are approximately 220 team members from 44
countries. About 80 would be in Baghdad at any given time, backed up
by doctors, interpreters, pilots and other support staff - taking the
total team to roughly 120-130.
Thank you again for your question and if you require any further
clarification, please let me know.
Regards,
-THV
Search Strategy:
weapons inspector team members
Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
Dr. Hans Belix
References:
United Nations Radio News
http://www.un.org/av/radio/news/2002/aug/02080500.htm
New UN Monitoring Commission for Iraq
http://www.un.org/peace/19991217.sc6775.doc.html
IAEA Iraq Action Team
http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/Programmes/ActionTeam/
Weapons inspections chief determined not to repeat mistakes
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/18/1032054866232.html
BBC News - Q&A: What will the inspectors do?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2263680.stm |
Clarification of Answer by
tar_heel_v-ga
on
23 Nov 2002 13:19 PST
Libertarian..
I apologize as I missed your request regarding payment for the
inspections team members. The salaries of inspection team members is
US$90,000 a year. They are all full time, salaried employees of the
United Nations, therefore, when they are not in Iraq, they are still
employed by the UN doing research and other duties associated with
UNMOVIC. The backgrounds of the inspectors, as I said, varies. They
are chemists, biologists or focused in other scientific disciplines.
If you visit the employment page at
http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/employment/jobs%20at%20UNMOVIC.htm/,
they have the requirements listed for the various specialties:
"Specifically, UNMOVIC is looking for experts with the following
experience:
Missiles
Degree in engineering; experience in missile design, manufacturing and
testing, familiarity with machine tools related to missile
manufacturing, or experience with liquid or solid propellant
manufacturing and testing.
Biological weapons
Degree in biochemistry or bacteriology with experience in molecular
pharmacology or in microbiological research, molecular genetics and
bio-safety. Experience in the identification of toxic substances in
various samples is desirable. Knowledge of means of delivery and
dispersal is also welcome.
Chemical weapons
Degree in chemistry or chemical engineering. Experience in the
synthesis of CW agents and familiarity with their analysis or
experience in chemical toxicology and hazards assessment or in
production process evaluation. Experience in use of detection devices
is desirable. Knowledge of means of delivery and dispersal is also
welcome."
I hope this clarifies your question. If not, please let me know what
additional information you require.
Regards,
-THV
References:
Employment and Training opportunities
http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/employment/jobs%20at%20UNMOVIC.htm
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,798397,00.html
Inspectors face learning curve
http://www.dallasnews.com/dmn/news/stories/111602dnintinspectors.5f55a.html
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