UN Security Council to Meet on New Iraq Draft Resolution

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UN Security Council to Meet on New Iraq Draft Resolution

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Members of the UN Security Council will hold private consultations Friday on a US draft resolution asking for help to secure and rebuild Iraq, British Ambassador to the UN Emyr Jones Parry said Wednesday.

"The intention, as I understand it, of the US is to share with colleagues ... the thoughts behind that text and to get some reaction to it and that those reactions will then inform the nature of the text which would then later be formally tabled," Parry told reporters.

The United States circulated the draft resolution on Wednesday night to other permanent members of the Security Council. The measure asks the council to urge contributions for a multi-national force in Iraq, and to further recognize the US-installed Iraqi Governing Council.

The draft, a copy of which was obtained by Xinhua, also calls for international help for the training and equipping of the Iraqipolice, as well as for Iraq's reconstruction.

But it gives few new specific duties to the United Nations except asks the body to help organize the constitutional process and future elections.

In an interview with the Financial Times on a possible new UN role stemming from the new resolution, UN Secretary-General Annan said: "Whatever mandate is given to us has to be clear, precise, achievable."

"The mandate we had (in the early resolution on Iraq in May) was rather ambiguous. We got a lot done, but moving forward we need a clear resolution, which we've had in similar situations, for example, in the case of Afghanistan, (where) you had a clear division of labor," he noted.

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