Richard Butler
Richard Butler
English singer who was the lead musician for the Psychedelic Furs, as well as the founder and member of the band Love Spit Love.
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth5 June 1957
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I earnestly believe that those documents exist and they're in the possession of the government of Iraq, and they can choose to give them to us.
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I am deeply concerned about the whole process. I have a message to convey from the Security Council to the Iraqis. I hope that they will commit themselves to the past cooperation with U.N. inspection teams.
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But, as I understand it, the core (of the inspection team) would still be the technicians and professionals from UNSCOM whose job it is to identify anything relevant to weapons of mass destruction. If that's the way this thing comes out by way of a solution, fine, because the core is still our technical work and our task of disarmament.
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Obviously there was no movement and obviously the best and most constructive thing for me to do is to take this back to those who really run the show, namely the (U.N.) Security Council, and see where we go from there.
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She's doing OK. She's a fighter, like I said, she's a fighter, and I really believe she's gonna pull through.
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Silly to think we could have serious conversations in our office.
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Maybe with respect to those (eight) buildings there will be some special arrangements made where our professional team will be accompanied by diplomatic observers,
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My job is to return to New York to report this stage of affairs to the Security Council. I can't go into details until I do that.
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My duty is to report what has happened to the Security Council and the United Nations. I'm going to New York to do that.
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I have always insisted that any assistance offered to us by member states be for our purposes, our legal purposes alone and not for theirs.
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If (Iraqi officials) cooperate with this, if they break the habit of a lifetime and tell us the whole truth, then we will be able to verify that and deal with those results within about six months.
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If Iraqi disarmament were a five-lap race, we would be three quarters of the way around the fifth and final lap.
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what weapons do they have and where are they now.
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Butler knows very well that Iraq cannot rebuild its arsenal of mass destruction weapons because the means to make these weapons have been destroyed.