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To: steve harris who wrote (189310)	5/27/2004 3:28:12 PM
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Draft Resolution on Iraq Needs Improving - Chirac 57 minutes ago Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac said on Thursday serious improvements were needed to a U.S.-British draft United Nations (news - web sites) resolution outlining the handover of power to an interim Iraqi government. "We are approaching this discussion in a perfectly constructive spirit," Chirac told a news conference during a stopover in Guatemala on the way to an EU-Latin American summit in Mexico. "The draft set out by the United States gives us a solid basis, but one which requires serious improvement." Chirac, whose country led opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq (news - web sites), had already set out France's concerns in a telephone conversation with President Bush (news - web sites) a few days ago. Chirac said the interim government should exercise "full sovereignty in all fields -- political, economic, security, justice, diplomacy" and that it should have "control over the natural resources of Iraq," meaning its oil reserves. The draft resolution provides for an oil and gas fund, now controlled by the occupiers, to be handed over to Iraq and an auditing board to stay in place. France has never objected to the provision. France has said the resolution should make clear the interim government has a say over what actions are taken by U.S.-led forces once sovereignty is handed over next month.