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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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 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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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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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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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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As we were being thrown out, one of the last conversations I had with them (the Iraqi officials) was about their illegal work to extend their missile program,
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They dusted off a proposal that was three and a half years old that they put to me in 1998, which was a joke. They were told then it was a joke, and they're doing it again. I'm sorry. This is not serious.
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I told him that I cannot fulfill your demand because I don't have the evidence,
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It is with great sadness that I take this decision, ... I have always acted with the best interests of the state at heart and, consistent with that, I felt bound to make this decision.
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It may be that we won't ever get 100 percent verification where physical parts have been torn apart and dispersed.