As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “273. At the Azores Summit on 16 March, President Bush, Mr Blair and Prime Minister José María Anzar of Spain agreed that, unless there was a fundamental change in the next 24 hours, the UN process would end.”
– Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, March 16, 2003