Follow up on Aluminum Tubes and Iraq

[Hentor_the_Barbarian]

I have a question regarding those pesky aluminum tubes that Iraq was trying to acquire. It has been said that it was illegal, or proscribed by UN resolution, for Iraq to even attempt to acquire these tubes for the construction of any conventional missiles. For example, in the Status report of Mohamed ElBaradei to the UN Security Council, January 8, 2003, he says:

While the matter is still under investigation, and further verification is foreseen, the IAEA’s analysis to date indicates that the specifications of the aluminium tubes sought by Iraq in 2001 and 2002 appear to be consistent with reverse engineering of rockets. While it would be possible to modify such tubes for the manufacture of centrifuges, they are not directly suitable for it. It should be noted, however, that the attempted acquisition of such tubes is prohibited under paragraph 24(a) of resolution 687 (1991), which, inter alia, proscribes the supply to Iraq of components of arms and related matériel.

However, the text of the cited paragraph of UN Resolution 687 states:

24. Decides that, in accordance with resolution 661 (1990) and subsequent related resolutions and until a further decision is taken by the Security Council, all States shall continue to prevent the sale or supply, or the promotion or facilitation of such sale or supply, to Iraq by their nationals, or from their territories or using their flag vessels or aircraft, of:

(a) Arms and related materiel of all types, specifically including the sale or transfer through other means of all forms of conventional military equipment, including for paramilitary forces, and spare parts and components and their means of production, for such equipment;

I read this as proscribing the sale or provision by UN Member States to Iraq of arms and related materiel, but saying nothing about Iraq obtaining or attempting to obtain such. Of course, if all states act in accord with this, the upshot is that Iraq should not end up with the stuff.

Question 1: Does the text as written, actually bear upon Iraq such that one could say that their efforts to obtain aluminum tubes for rockets is a violation on their part of a UN resolution?

If not:
Question 2: Is there some other resolution that is more explicit in stating that Iraq was not permitted to attempt to obtain the aluminum tubes for conventional rockets of less than 150 km?