digitalreporter wrote:
] ] NEW YORK (CNN) -- French diplomats at the United Nations
] ] have put forward a proposal for a new weapons monitoring
] ] regime for Iraq that would result in lifting the oil
] ] embargo imposed after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
] ]
] ] And in a direct swipe at the United Nations' existing
] ] weapons inspection program for Iraq, the French proposal
] ] said "it is high time for the Security Council to
] ] recognize that no additional progress on disarmament work
] ] can be reached by an illusory resumption of unchanged
] ] previous methods."
] ]
] ] U.N. weapons inspectors left Iraq in December before
] ] airstrikes by the United States and Britain. They have
] ] not returned, and Iraqi officials have vowed to keep them
] ] out.

I found this article from 1999 interesting for the other simultaneous events going on: France wanted to lift the oil embargo, while at the same time Iraq was still firing missiles at "enemy" U.S. aircraft.

RE: CNN - French propose new Iraqi inspection program, end of oil embargo - January 13, 1999