Foreign ministers of the 15 members of the Security Council have delivered their reactions at the United Nations to the latest reports on Iraq's progress on disarmament.
Here is a selection of quotes:
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fisher
"Peaceful disarmament is possible and there is a real alternative to war.
"We stand united in our condemnation of the Iraqi regime - where we have different views is our strategy how to achieve total disarmament of Iraq.
"We see no need for a second resolution."
Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara
"Iraq has co-operated actively.
"[Iraq's destruction of al-Samoud II missiles] is a tangible and material evidence of this co-operation that can neither be considered deceptive nor insignificant."
Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez
"Mexico is convinced that all roads must be explored... and that every opportunity must be taken advantage of to resolve this matter peacefully.
"[Iraq must] rapidly change its attitude."
US Secretary of State Colin Powell
"I still find what I heard this morning a catalogue of non-co-operation.
"The clock continues to tick and the consequences of Saddam Hussein's continued refusal to disarm will be very, very real.
"If Iraq wanted to disarm, the co-operation would be voluntary and even enthusiastic, not coerced.
"We believe that the resolution that has been put forward for action by the council is appropriate and in the very near future we should bring it before this council for a vote."
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov
"Now we need not new Security Council resolutions... we need the active support of inspectors in carrying out their tasks.
"Russia is firmly in favour of continuing and strengthening the work of inspectors.
"The UN must emerge from the Iraq crisis not weakened and divided, but united and strengthened."
French Foreign Minister Dominique Galouzeau de Villepin
"Significant evidence of real disarmament has been observed.
"Why choose division when our unity and resolve are leading Iraq to get rid of its weapons of mass destruction?
"France will not let a resolution pass that authorises the automatic use of force.
"No-one ignores the cruelty of this dictatorship and the need to do everything to promote human rights, but that was not the aim of Resolution 1441."
Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan
"Resolution 1441 has been implemented smoothly on the whole with progress made and results achieved.
"As long as we stick to the road of political settlement, the goal of destroying Iraq's weapons of mass destruction could still be achieved.
"We are not in favour of a new resolution, particularly one authorising the use of force."
"Let them [the inspectors] continue inspections and find out the truth, until they complete the mandate of [UN resolution] 1441."
Chilean Foreign Minister Soledad Alvear
"We are convinced that this last opportunity for peace passes through strengthening inspections in Iraq with clear deadlines and concrete demands in keeping with the sense of urgency in resolution 1441.
"The use of force can only by invoked once all peaceful means to disarm Iraq have been exhausted."
Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio
"Disarming Iraq is not a question of more inspectors or more time, this, to quote a French thinker, is merely a strategy of impotence."
"[Saddam Hussein's] strategy remains the same - to fool us.
"We all want peace but we want a peace that is safe and that guarantees... these weapons will not fall in the hands of terrorists who can use them for their own ends."
UK Foreign Minister Jack Straw
"Nobody, not one minister before this council... has said that Iraq is now fully, actively and immediately in compliance with [UN resolution] 1441.
"The progress that has been reported represents only the tip of a huge iceberg of unfinished business.
"The only way we are going to achieve the disarmament of a rogue regime... is by backing our diplomacy with a credible threat of force.
"We are tabling [an amendment] which will specify a further period beyond the adoption of a resolution for Iraq to take the final opportunity to disarm and to bring themselves
into compliance."
Pakistani Foreign Minister Munir Akram
"If war is to be avoided and a peaceful solution realised, the council must impress upon Iraq... that it must comply fully and faithfully with its resolutions prescribing the elimination of its weapons of mass destruction.
"The best assurance of success in ensuring Iraq's disarmament of weapons of mass destruction is the unity of the council."
Bulgarian ambassador to the UN Stefan Tavrov
"The co-operation of Iraq remains insufficient.
"Iraq continues to defy the will of the international
community."
Cameroon ambassador to the UN Martin Belinga-Eboutou
"At this stage, the Council recognises that Iraq has not yet taken the final opportunity offered by the council.
"I call on all Council members to work to build together a common position which would make it understood to the Iraqi authorities that they have no alternative - if they wish a peaceful disarmament of their country - but to conform with the decisions of the international community."
Iraqi ambassador to the UN Mohammed al-Douri
"It seems that the possibility of a war of aggression being launched on Iraq has become imminent, regardless of what the Security Council decides, and regardless of the international position - both official and public - strongly rejecting aggression and war and demanding a peaceful solution.
"The French, German, Russian [and] Chinese position clearly expresses the fact that there is no need for a second resolution to be adopted in the Security Council.
"It demands that the work of the inspectors continue and that enough time is given them to complete their tasks by peaceful means.
"The position of the Arab countries was also clear, particularly the one taken by the last Arab summit, which unanimously expressed the rejection of an attack against Iraq."
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