Volume 1 - Iraq Watch

Regime Financeand ProcurementFigure 63. Selected contracts between NEC and Iraqicompanies.• Some 50 to 100 tons of 98 to 99 percent nitric acid.• Hydrofluoric acid.• One hundred nitric acid pumps for 99.99 percentnitric acid.• Unsymmetric dimethylhydrazine (UDMH), a liquidfuel use for improved performance in liquid rocketpropellants.• Diethylene triamine (DETA), a liquid fuel used inliquid propellant missiles.• Other chemicals sought by Iraq included hydrazine,hydrogen peroxide, xylidene, and triethylamine,which are chemicals commonly used for fuels andoxidizers by liquid-propellant missiles.BelarusBelarus was the largest supplier of sophisticatedhigh-technology conventional weapons to Iraq from2001 until the fall of the Regime. Complicity in thisillicit trade was exhibited at the highest levels ofthe Belarusian Government. Belarusian state establishmentsand companies implemented cooperationagreements with Iraq to transfer technology, equipment,and expertise to the embargoed Regime.• The Iraqis constantly worked to improve theillicit trade relationship with Belarus despite theabsence of a formal trade agreement between thetwo countries. The illicit trade relationship allowedIraq to obtain high-technology military equipment.Belarus was relatively advanced in military researchand development including air defense and electronicwarfare.125