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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (54)	2/14/2003 7:22:19 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (1) of 186

'Old Europe' France: 'Give Peace a Chance' in Iraq UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin told the Security Council on Friday that U.N. inspections in Iraq were showing results and the use of force was not justified at this time. Seeking to head off any quick move in the council to seek an authorization for war, he suggested that foreign ministers from the council's 15 member-nations get together a month from now for another status report on Iraqi disarmament. De Villepin drew a rare burst of applause from the visitors' gallery when he announced, in a jibe at Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, that his message "to give peace a chance" came from "an old country" in Europe. "This message comes to you today from an old country ... that does not forget and knows everything it owes to the freedom fighters who came from America and elsewhere -- and yet has never ceased to stand upright in the face of history and before mankind," he told the council. "It wishes resolutely to act with all the members of the international community. Faithful to its values, it believes in our ability to build together a better world," de Villepin said. Rumsfeld last month heaped scorn on Germany and France for their role in leading global opposition to the U.S. stance on Iraq. He dismissed their views as complaints from "old Europe" and praised a group of former Communist nations who support Washington as a "new Europe." De Villepin addressed the Security Council and later spoke with reporters after chief U.N. weapons inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei presented their latest report on international efforts to disarm Iraq. "ALTERNATIVE TO WAR" The French minister said the reports demonstrated that "the use of force is not justified at this time. There is an alternative to war -- disarming Iraq through inspections." President Bush has warned that time was running out for Baghdad to rid itself of any weapons of mass destruction and has left the door open to a new council resolution formally finding Iraq in further "material breach" of council resolutions and authorizing the use of force. But de Villepin said the time had not yet come for discussion of a second resolution. He asked instead that the inspection process be given at least another month by suggesting that foreign ministers of the council's 15 member-nations get together once again on March 14 to again discuss how inspections were proceeding. "We will in this manner be able to evaluate what progress has been made and what remains to be accomplished," he said. The council already has met three times at the foreign minister level over the past month. But "what is at stake here is war and peace and our common responsibility," de Villepin said. "We are willing to try to give peace a chance."

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