The first would focus strictly on Iraqi compliance with disarmament requirements and future monitoring.

Iraq insists that it has met all disarmament requirements and poses no danger to its neighbors.

Only then would the team decide what Iraq must still do to fulfill its disarmament requirements.

It also had to accept the idea of suspending some sanctions before Iraq demonstrated full compliance with all disarmament requirements.

He in turn is to tell the Security Council by early April how far Iraq has come in meeting the disarmament requirements.

Washington has focused on keeping sanctions in force until Iraq complies with all disarmament requirements.

To have them lifted, it has to meet disarmament requirements in biological, chemical, nuclear and missile systems.

The administration would be history by the time that happened, given the steps Iraq has to agree to take to meet disarmament requirements.

It proposes a suspension, not removal, of sanctions when Iraq demonstrates its compliance with disarmament requirements.

It did not promise more than a new look at sanctions after Iraq had met all its disarmament requirements.