وتشهد محاضر مجلس الأمن اعتماد هذا القرار على تأكيدات قاطعة، من قِبَل الدول التي تسابق الزمن الآن لخوض الحرب على العراق، بأن هذا القرار لا يعني على الإطلاق فرصة للقفز على الشرعية الدولية وتوجيه ضربة عسكرية دون العودة إلى مجلس الأمن.
The verbatim record of meetings of the Security Council include comments by those members that are hastening to wage war against Iraq, confirming their belief that that resolution does not allow for international law to be circumvented or to permit a strike against Iraq without first reverting to the Security Council. We categorically oppose the views of those who have reneged on that resolution, particularly given that they are sure that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction, as well as those who worked to deliberately discredit the contents of the resolution, in accordance with the infamous claim that the end justifies the means.