However, as the panel of experts presided by Ambassador Amorim noted in April 1999, the Iraqi population would not have suffered such privations had the measures taken in 1991 by the Security Council not had to have been extended.
Men, som det ekspertpanel, som ambassadør Amorim var formand for, noterede, behøvede den irakiske befolkning ikke lide den slags afsavn, hvis det ikke var, fordi Sikkerhedsrådet havde forlænget de foranstaltninger, der blev truffet i 1991.