In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

Blair is invoking the post–1991 Gulf War disarmament regime to argue that Iraq’s obligation to disclose and eliminate weapons of mass destruction was long-standing and explicit, not a new demand invented in 2002–03. By stressing a short deadline (“15 days”) and the phrase “full and final declaration,” the line frames Iraq’s later incomplete cooperation as a continuing breach of binding UN requirements. In Blair’s rhetoric, this history supports the claim that the international community had repeatedly offered Iraq clear terms and opportunities to comply, and that subsequent enforcement measures were justified as the culmination of a decade of noncompliance rather than a sudden escalation.