Many voices are now calling for renewed United Nations inspections in Iraq.

Members are subject to periodic United Nations inspections.

For 12 years of United Nations inspections, he stonewalled, stalled and moved the goal posts.

Now stand together in enforcing the United Nations inspection.

Pakistan is not a signatory and does not allow United Nations inspections.

His book is a detailed history of the diplomacy surrounding what turned out to be the last United Nations inspections in Iraq.

Baghdad's current refusal to allow meaningful United Nations inspections may not be the last word on the subject.

"We know that at some point, they will start making our lives difficult," one United Nations inspections official here said.

The union also forged a common position on Iraq, urging continued United Nations inspections as an alternative to war.

Further United Nations inspections, he said, would dangerously "provide false comfort."