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”. This was the first time delivery systems were mentioned as part of the scope of a ME WMDFZ.

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Security Council Votes to Establish Formal Cease-Fire to End Persian Gulf War. General view of the Council members voting in favour of Resolution 687.