Russia, France Call for Greater UN Role in Iraq

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Russia, France Call for Greater UN Role in Iraq

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Jacques Chirac called in a telephone conversation Friday for urgently giving the United Nations a more extensive role in stabilizing Iraq.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Jacques Chirac called in a telephone conversation Friday for urgently giving the United Nations a more extensive role in stabilizing Iraq.

The phone call between the two heads of state was held for discussing a US-proposed draft UN Security Council resolution on Iraq, Interfax news agency reported.

"The Iraq issue was in the focus of the discussion on the situation in the world arena," Sergei Prikhodko, deputy chief of the Russian presidential staff said.

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said earlier on Friday that Russia is not "allergic" to the United States being in command in Iraq, as long as the peacekeeping forces "act under a UN Security Council mandate."

He pointed out that the US draft resolution on Iraq "is just a general provision that needs clarification in terms of the mandateof the forces, the parameters of their activities and the principles of reporting back to the UN Security Council."

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