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To: stockman_scott who wrote (49323)	10/4/2002 11:29:04 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

U.S. Said Discussing Compromise on Iraq at U.N. dailynews.att.net "Said a Western diplomat, "Our impression is that the State Department is looking for a compromise... They are facing the fact that the (U.S.) draft is not as popular as it could have been." Updated 10:56 AM ET October 4, 2002 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is working with Britain and France to bridge differences over a United Nations resolution on Iraq and European diplomats said they believe Washington has softened its opposition to a two-stage process, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. "We've not decided specifically (on two resolutions). We still want one resolution but we're exploring with the British and the French ways of bridging the difference between the resolution that we want and the two the French want," the official told Reuters. Said a Western diplomat, "Our impression is that the State Department is looking for a compromise... They are facing the fact that the (U.S.) draft is not as popular as it could have been." The United States insists the U.N. Security Council must pass a tough new resolution giving instructions to U.N. weapons inspectors and spelling out the consequences -- the threat of enforcement by "all means necessary" -- if Iraq tries to thwart disarmament of its weapons of mass destruction. But the resolution has faced opposition from France, Russia and China for giving any U.N. member, such as the United States, an automatic right to use force when it perceives an Iraqi violation. France wants two resolutions, one laying out new instructions for the inspections and a second, if needed, dealing with consequences for Iraqi noncompliance.