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Bush drafts third resolution
for U.N. assistance in Iraq
I he administration hopes
the latest draft will satisfy
critics in several countries
who have held approval
By Jonathan S. Landay
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WASHINGTON — The Bush ad
ministration has launched a new bid
at the United Nations to boost inter
national reconstruction aid and
peacekeeping troops for Iraq.
The United States over the weekend
circulated to the U.N. Security Council's
15 members a new draft resolution that
would give the U.S.-appointed Iraqi
Governing Council until Dec. 15 to de
velop a timetable for writing a new con
stitution and holding elections.
But the resolution stopped short of
setting a date for the restoration of
Iraqi sovereignty and did not meet
other countries' demands that the
United Nations be given a central role
in developing a new constitution or
organizing polls.
The text of the draft resolution, the
third put forward by the United
States since August, was posted Mon
day on the Web site of Xinhua, the
state-run Chinese news agency.
Britain and Spain were expected to
co-sponsor the resolution.
U.S. officials confirmed the con
tents of the draft resolution, but de
clined to release a copy. They said the
document could be formally intro
duced as early as Tuesday.
The draft represents a fresh attempt
by the Bush administration to satisfy
the concerns of France, Russia, China
and other countries that have held up
Security Council approval of a resolu
tion on a peacekeeping force and re
construction assistance to Iraq.
A senior U.S. official, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said that
over the weekend, Secretary of State
Colin Powell held telephone consul
tations with the foreign ministers of
about halfthe 15 ll.N. Security Coun
cil members in an effort to daim up
support for the draft resolution.
Chinese, French and Russian offi
cials said that while the new draft res
olution was an improvement over ear
lier versions, it didn't contain a
clear-cut plan to end the U S. occupa
tion or guarantee the United Nations
a prime role in the country's political
rehabilitation. The three countries are
permanent members of the Security
Council and have veto power.
Unless further changes are made, "it
will be very difficult to reach a consen
sus stand on these issues," said Sergei
Trepelkoz, a spokesman for the Russ
ian mission to the United Nations.
"It's better wording, but the same
approach," said a French official,
who asked not to be identified. "We
think there is too little room for the
U.N. There is no mention of an in
terim (Iraqi) government given re
sponsibility."
The Chinese government's unusual
decision to make the draft resolution
public before Washington might have
been a move to nudge the United
States and its critics toward a faster res
olution of their differences.
The resolution says the Iraqi Govern
ing Council and its ministers would be
"the principal bodies of the Iraqi inter
im administration, which will embody
the sovereignty of the state of Iraq dur
ing transitional period."
A second U.S. official, also speaking
on condition of anonymity, said the
new language was designed to as
suage demands for a concrete date for
the restoration of sovereignty.
"We cannot predict the future," he
said. "We are trying to make some
progress."
ButTrepelkoz said, "It is not a mat
ter of a timetable."
Russia, France and other countries
are seeking the creation of a provi
sional Iraqi government within
months, but the Bush administration
insists that an orderly transfer of pow
er will take much more time.
Countries such as Pakistan and India
say that without a U.N. resolution, they
cannot contribute the sizable contin
gents of peacekeeping troops that the
Bush administration is seeking.
Twenty countries are now provid
ing some 24,000 soldiers to help
130,000 American troops and more
than 50,000 Iraqis maintain order
amid guerrilla attacks by loyalists of
deposed dictator Saddam Hussein, Is
lamic extremists and criminals.
But President Bush must have
many more international peacekeep
ers to ease a shortage of US. troops.
With few other counties stepping
forward, Bush has been forced to mo
bilize thousands of U.S. National
Guard and reserves for up to 18
months of active duty, an unpopular
move as he faces re-election.
Bush's proposal to spend $20 bil
lion on Iraqi reconstruction, a multi
year project that could cost more than
double that amount, is under fire in
Congress from Democrats and Re
publicans concerned about a shortage
of funds for domestic programs.
The new resolution, like its predeces
sors, authorizes the creation of a multi
national peacekeeping force. It also re
quires a review of die force's mission no
later than one year after approval of the
resolution. That provision apparently
was intended as an assurance that the
foreign forces would leave Iraq when
their job was done.
(c) 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services. William Douglas
in Washington contributed to this report.
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