UN Security Council Expects to Solve Iraq Issue at Early Date

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UN Security Council Expects to Solve Iraq Issue at Early Date

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Tuesday's US midterm election has nothing to do with the schedule of the UN Security Council, and "it is the general belief of the members of the council that we'd better try to solve the issue as soon as possible," the council president for November said Monday.

"The American election has nothing to do with the schedule of the council," the president, Zhang Yishan of China, told a press conference here, adding that the council has no time limit in the discussion of the draft resolution on Iraq.

"We are ready for the (Iraq) issue, and the time we have is available," said Zhang, the acting permanent representative of China to the United Nations.

"But for the time being, I do not know when to discuss the issue," he said, referring to the time to vote on the draft resolution, cosponsored by the United States and Britain, which met with opposition from France and Russia, the two permanent members of the 15-nation council.

As the council president, he will try his best to adopt a democratic working method and to increase the transparency of the council, according to Zhang.

China, one of the five permanent members of the council, assumed the council presidency on Nov. 1. The council members rotate the presidency in accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation.

Also during November, on the council agenda will be such issuesas the "oil-for-food" program, the Middle East, Somalia, Angola, Georgia and the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, he said.

Under the UN Charter, the Security Council, with five permanentmembers and 10 nonpermanent members, has the primary responsibility for the maintenance of peace and security in the world.

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