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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (11854)	10/9/2003 4:57:54 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

Other than one reporter, is there any evidence of Chirac's statement? After only a few days of formal negotiation and a number of mostly minor amendments to the text, France, Russia and Germany announced they would vote in favour of the resolution. They were the countries that in February and March formed a solid front against the war resolution, rejecting that as an ultimatum with an automatic trigger for the use of force. news.bbc.co.uk Chirac confirmed that France, which like Russia, the UK and U.S. is a veto-holding member of the U.N. Security Council, would reject any resolution seen as paving the way for U.S.-led military action without further U.N. approval. "We are totally opposed to any resolution that gave as of now an automatic character to military intervention," Chirac said. edition.cnn.com Publicly, Chirac held out for a rejection of any automatic link between a negative report by UN weapons inspectors and the use of military force against Iraq. iht.com As a veto-holding security council member, France "will not allow a resolution to pass that authorises the automatic use of force", the foreign minister said. He suggested instead that the inspectors draw up a "hierarchy of tasks for disarmament" and give a new progress report every three weeks, and called for world heads of state to meet at the UN to "make the choice between war and peace". guardian.co.uk etc etc etc...