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To: paul_philp who started this subject	3/9/2003 10:01:06 AM
From: paul_philp	of 504

Powell Says U.S. Could Get 9 or 10 Votes in Security Council By REUTERS WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday it was unclear if the United States would win a U.N. Security Council vote that could clear the way for war with Iraq but he saw a "strong chance" it may get 9 or 10 votes. "It's not clear yet. We will have to wait and see when the vote is taken sometime this week but I am encouraged by the discussions I have been having with a number of members of the council," Powell told NBC's "Meet the Press." "I think we have a chance to get, a strong chance ... that we might get the nine or 10 votes needed for passage of the resolution and we'll see if somebody wants to veto it," he added. Powell said if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein did not have a change of heart and agree to give up his suspected weapons of mass destruction -- something the U.S. official said he did not expect -- then "the probability of war is rapidly increasing." The United States, Britain and Spain have proposed a new U.N. resolution that sets a March 17 ultimatum for Iraq to fully comply with U.N. demands that it give up its suspected chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs. But the proposal faces strong opposition from France and other veto-wielding Security Council members, prompting a final, intense round of public and private diplomacy before this week's showdown vote. Iraq denies it has such weapons. A defeat of the resolution alone would be unlikely to prevent war. Washington has repeatedly said it will lead a "coalition of the willing" against Iraq without U.N. approval if necessary. A resolution in the 15-member U.N. Security Council needs a minimum of nine votes for adoption and there must be no veto by any of the five permanent members -- the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China. In addition to France, Russia and China also oppose a new resolution that would implicitly or explicitly authorize military action. Powell said he did not know if there would be war, but he said that the window for diplomacy "is closing rapidly." Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company \| Privacy Policy nytimes.com

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