As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “President Chirac told Mr Blair on 14 March that France was ‘content to proceed *in the logic of UNSCR 1441*: but it could not accept an ultimatum or any *automaticity’ of recourse to force’. He proposed looking at a new resolution in line with resolution 1441, ‘provided that it excluded these options’. President Chirac ‘suggested that the UNMOVIC work programme might provide a way forward. France was prepared to look at reducing the 120 day timeframe it envisaged.’ “
– Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, March 14, 2003