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UN Security Council Resolution 687 endorses the creation of a ME WMDFZ

UN Security Council Resolution 687 endorses the creation of a ME WMDFZ

UN Security Council Resolution 687, which terminated the Persian Gulf War in 1991, called for an NWFZ and a zone free of all WMD and noted that Iraq’s disarmament "represent steps towards the goal of establishing
in the Middle East a zone free from weapons of mass destruction and all missiles for their delivery"