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标 题: Chirac Rejects Proposed U.N. Resolution
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年03月22日01:04:47 星期六), 站内信件
Chirac Rejects Proposed U.N. Resolution
Friday March 21, 2003 4:50 PM
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Jacques Chirac said Friday that France would not go
along with a new United Nations resolution allowing the United States and B
ritain to administer postwar Iraq.
The French president said at a European Union summit he would ``not accept''
a resolution that ``would legitimize the military intervention (and) would
give the belligerents the powers to administer Iraq.''
``That would justify the war after the event,'' Chirac told reporters.
At the summit, British Prime Minister Tony Blair urged his 14 colleagues to
support a new U.N. resolution authorizing a post-Saddam ``civil authority in
Iraq.''
Britain has not yet introduced such a Security Council resolution, however.
Chirac said he met with Blair on the sidelines of the EU summit to discuss `
`the way ahead'' in rebuilding their relations within the 15-nation bloc and
between one another.
``Mr. Blair and I shared that same spirit,'' Chirac said.
France has taken a hard stand in opposing the U.S.-led war against Iraq, a p
osition that has divided the EU.
Neither the United States nor Britain has stated publicly that it was planni
ng to seek Security Council authorization to administer postwar Iraq. Chirac
's comments appeared to be aimed at putting Washington and London on notice
that France would oppose, and probably veto, any such resolution.
The majority of the 15 Security Council members would probably favor install
ing a U.N. administration in Iraq, similar to the U.N. administration now ru
nning Kosovo. That possibility has been discussed in the corridors of U.N. h
eadquarters in New York.
The United States and Britain are currently pressing for quick Security Coun
cil authorization to transfer authority for the U.N.'s main humanitarian pro
gram in Iraq from the Iraqi government to Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The
council was discussing the issue on Friday.
Annan proposed a draft resolution Thursday that would give him interim autho
rity over the oil-for-food program, which was providing food to about 60 per
cent of Iraq's 22 million people. Washington and London had their own propos
al.
But Russia and France insisted that the only proposal on the table for discu
ssion Friday was Annan's, a reflection of the lingering opposition to giving
the likely occupying powers in Iraq control over a U.N. program.
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