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To: NickSE who wrote (219)	3/4/2003 12:12:02 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (2) of 504

US is wasting time at this point. We should be going already because we're not getting 9 votes for a resolution. Russia May Use Veto Power to Stop War washingtonpost.com [....] "Russia has this right and if the situation so demands, Russia will of course use its right of veto -- as an extreme measure -- to avoid the worst development of the situation," Ivanov said, according to a translated version of a BBC World Service interview in London. "Russia would not support any decision that would directly or indirectly lead to a war with Iraq," he added. Ivanov said Moscow, which like China, France and Germany opposes the hawkish stance by Washington and London against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, would not abstain in any future U.N. Security Council vote on Iraq. "To abstain is a position that could not take place. Russia is not indifferent to the future of Iraq," he said. "Russia will not abstain. It will take a particular position." [....]

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