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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (28810)	9/25/2003 1:40:21 PM
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Also from the USA Today article: Bush will have a chance this weekend to lobby Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Camp David presidential retreat. Russia has tended to align itself with France in demanding a prompt end to the U.S. occupation, with control of Iraq turned over to Iraqis. However, Russia's Putin criticizes U.S. on Iraq UNITED NATIONS from today - usatoday.com (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin implicitly criticized the United States on Thursday for launching a war on Iraq without U.N. approval and demanded "direct participation" by the United Nations in rebuilding the country. Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Thursday. By Alexander Nemenov, AFP As the world body tries to grapple with the violence and instability in post-war Iraq, Russia, France, Germany and other opponents of the U.S.-led war have been pressing for a timetable for the United States to hand over power to Iraqis and a much greater role for the United Nations in overseeing the political transition. (Related story: U.S., Russian leaders meet Friday) Putin did not mention a timetable in his speech on the third day of the General Assembly's annual ministerial meeting, focusing instead on the demand for U.N. action on many problems facing the world today — including Iraq — and stressing that the world body is "clearly irreplaceable." "This is made abundantly clear by the following important fact. Despite sharp differences about how to resolve the Iraq crisis, the situation ultimately is coming back to the legal sphere of the United Nations," Putin said. "The position of Russia here is consistent and clear. Only direct participation by the United Nations in the rebuilding of Iraq will enable its people themselves to decide on their future," he said. "And only with the active — and I want to stress this — practical assistance by the United Nations in its economic and civil transformation, only thus will Iraq assume a new worthy place in the world community." Other world leaders also criticized Washington for harming the United Nations with its unilateralist approach in Iraq, while some thanked the world body for its role in healing conflict in their lands. Cyprus President Tassos Papadopolous, the opening speaker on Thursday, said the United Nations should persevere in trying to resolve the dispute on the island between the Greek and Turkish sides. "We understand and share the bitterness and the disappointment of all involved for the failure but as I said before we should not give up," he said. He blamed the Turkish-Cypriot leaders for the failure, but hoped they would return to the negotiating table. In speeches to the General Assembly Wednesday, foreign leaders again threw barbs at President Bush's policy of "pre-emptive" military strikes and demanded that conflicts and global threats be resolved collectively. Mexico's President Vicente Fox said that some states' "discretionary attitude toward the mandatory resolutions of the U.N. deeply wounds our international organization." Ghana's President John Agyekum Kufuor also implicitly faulted Washington for taking military action without U.N. authorization. "We believe that the problems of the 21st century cannot be addressed without universal commitment to multilateralism spearheaded by the United Nations," he said. Although Iraq dominated discussions, there were no responses to Bush's appeal for peacekeeping troops and financial aid for the U.S.-led occupation there. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder pledged additional troops for Afghanistan, saying "our top priority is our commitment to peace in Afghanistan." "Germany is willing to maintain its commitment there in the long term — and to increase it," he said. Germany has 9,000 soldiers and police serving abroad in peacekeeping and anti-terrorism operations, including 1,700 in Afghanistan as part of a U.N.-authorized multinational force now led by NATO. It is sponsoring a U.N. resolution to expand the force. While the 15 nations on the Security Council discussed differences on a timetable for handing over power to Iraqis, many of the world leaders focused on how to restore U.N. clout in tackling global crises after the war on Iraq. Svetozar Marovic, president of Serbia and Montenegro, said the United Nations played a key role in stabilizing Kosovo province, demonstrating that "there is hope to create preconditions for dialogue, instead of hatred and conflicts."