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To: Brumar89 who wrote (112776)	8/25/2003 8:31:29 PM
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<New U.N. Plan for Iraq Meets Resistance> By GEORGE GEDDA, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is encountering resistance to a new U.N. Security Council resolution to encourage additional countries to send troops to Iraq (news - web sites), officials said Monday. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told reporters it is not clear whether the United States will pursue a new resolution. "We have not yet made a determination," Armitage told reporters after a meeting with Azerbaijan Prime Minister Ilham Aliyev. Other officials, asking not to be identified, acknowledged that the opposition is not surprising given the strong stand against the U.S. decision to go to war with Iraq in March without the council's blessing. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) interrupted his vacation last Thursday to travel to New York to make the case for a new council resolution. Powell had hoped that outrage over the bombing of the U.N. compound in Iraq two days earlier would make the council amenable to a resolution explicitly welcoming a broadening of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq. U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte said the Bush administration also wants more countries to provide financial assistance and help with police training to beef up security to bring stability to Iraq. But officials said that initial soundings among council members were not encouraging. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) said on Friday the United Nations (news - web sites) could not send a peacekeeping force to Iraq but added that he could not exclude a council decision "to transform the operation into a U.N.-mandated multinational force operating on the ground with other governments coming in." He stressed that U.N. approval for such a force "would also imply not just burden-sharing but also sharing decision and responsibility with the others." "If that doesn't happen, I think it's going to be very difficult to get a second resolution that will satisfy everybody," the secretary-general warned. Powell has made clear that Washington won't cede any of its decision-making powers in Iraq. France, Russia, India and other countries have ruled out sending soldiers to Iraq unless a multinational force is authorized by the United Nations. France's deputy U.N. ambassador Michel Duclos said the current impasse would not exist if a genuine international partnership had been established at the outset, under the guidance of the United Nations, to address Iraq's problems. "Sharing the burden and the responsibilities in a world of equal and sovereign nations means also sharing information and authority," Duclos said. story.news.yahoo.com