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Britain, US Mull UN Resolution on Iraq: Report

A top British official has said Britain and the United States are considering seeking a UN resolution on rebuilding post-war Iraq, British Financial Times newspaper reported Monday.


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A top British official has said Britain and the United States are considering seeking a UN resolution on rebuilding post-war Iraq, British Financial Times newspaper reported Monday.

"We are exploring among ourselves -- and we are exploring with the Americans -- what the pros and cons (of a new resolution) might be," the paper quoted John Sawers, political director of theForeign Office, as saying.

Sawers, who has just finished a three-month duty as British Prime Minister Tony Blair's special envoy for Iraq, told the paperthat preliminary negotiations over such a new resolution could begin within a few weeks.

However, he indicated that Britain and the United States were waiting to see what kind of demands France and Russia, two of the five permanent UN Security Council members, might make about boosting the UN role in Iraq.

"We are all conscious of tensions in the UN Security Council...They have not gone away. But before we go down the road of seekinga new UN resolution, we would want to be confident it was achievable in a way that would support the coalition's present efforts," Sawers told the paper.

Months after the United States announced that major military campaign in Iraq was over, coalition forces in Iraq have been facing persistent guerrilla attacks.

Although local reports said the United States and Britain are looking at ways of sharing the military burden of post-war Iraq, the United States has so far been cool to the idea of seeking a new resolution on Iraq.


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