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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (15604)	3/5/2003 1:16:46 AM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

I wonder if international blackmail is an impeachable offense? Don't snub US, Straw warns Nicholas Watt and Anne Perkins Wednesday March 5, 2003 The Guardian Britain delivered a blunt warning to France and Germany last night that they will "reap a whirlwind" if they refuse to sign up to a new Anglo-American resolution paving the way for an attack on Iraq. Highlighting Britain's frustration with its fellow European Union members, the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, claimed that Washington would abandon "multilateral" institutions such as the UN and Nato if Europe refuses to fall into line. "What I say to France and Germany and all my other EU colleagues is take care, because just as America helps to define and influence our politics, so what we do in Europe helps to define and influence American politics," Mr Straw told MPs on the Commons foreign affairs select committee. "And we will reap a whirlwind if we push the Americans into a unilateralist position in which they are the centre of this unipolar world." Mr Straw's warning to France and Germany - his toughest since the Iraq crisis erupted - underlined the determination of Britain and the US to prevent Paris from wielding its veto when the new resolution goes to the vote at the UN security council. President Bush is understood to have stepped up the pressure on Jacques Chirac in recent days by warning the French president that he will neither forgive nor forget if France continues to oppose the resolution. Mr Straw referred to the UN and Nato and said: "It would be very unacceptable if we were to place those institutions at risk." His remarks were echoed by the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, who warned that time was running out. "What we are doing ... is stepping up to the challenge of leadership," he told Channel 4 News. "Either the international community's will has meaning or does not have meaning." In a clear sign that the criticism of France and Germany has the blessing of Downing Street, Peter Mandelson warned last night that the US would behave "like a sheriff and his posse" sorting out the world's problems if Europe refuses to engage with Washington. guardian.co.uk