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To: lurqer who wrote (29283)	10/1/2003 10:00:30 PM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 89467

Newly revised plan A White House decision was imminent Wednesday on a revised resolution to give the United Nations a larger role in Iraq's reconstruction, a U.S. official said. The nod to the United Nations and other minor changes in the initial draft were designed to attract the support of France and other skeptical countries in the Security Council. There is no major hang-up within the U.S. government on the new provisions and approval is likely before the end of the week, an administration official told The Associated Press. He predicted passage by the 15-nation Council, but said he was less sanguine about the United States getting other countries to provide more peacekeeping troops and to pledge hundreds of millions of dollars in financial aid to rebuild Iraq at a donors conference Oct. 24 in Madrid. from cbsnews.com Stillborn? United Nations diplomats gave a tepid response on Wednesday to new US proposals for a resolution on Iraq, saying it offered some greater emphasis on a speedy transfer of authority to Iraqis but little evidence of the "radical" change recommended by UN officials and some member states. Following conversations between Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, and his counterparts in Spain, Germany and the UK, US diplomats presented new wording on Wednesday to the permanent five members of the Security Council, and later Germany, at their mission to the UN. from news.ft.com JMO lurqer