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Democrats in Congress have welcomed
the news of the death of Saddam's
sons, but some qualified their
statement.s, noting the slow pace of reconstructIon
and the continuing military
challenges facing the coalition.
, "It's progress," said Senator Edward
Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts.
"But I still think we need an overall
strategy" and closer cooperation with
the United Nati~ns and NATO to ease
the burden on American troops.
. But Bush saidBremer had devised "a .
comprehensive strategy to move Iraq
toward a future that is secureand prosperous."
The plan, he said, included "ambitious
timetables and clear benchmarks
to measure progress, and practical
methods for achieving results."
. Th!,!president took no questions diu"-
109 hIS Rose Garden appearance.
Intematloual.HeraId "niInme
3 on newlraqi team get qualified_
.welcome at UN
By Felicity Barringer
UNITED NATIONS, New, York: The
UN Security Council has extended a.
qualified Welcome to the new leader- .
ship of Iraq, hailing three members of
the Governing Council there as in-
•formed citizens but not, as they had requested,
as representatives of a legitimate
government .
Secretary General Kofi Annan said
Tuesday that the formation of the new
council was an "important step toward
the full restoration of Iraqi sovereignty."
His special representative in. Iraq,
Sergio Vieira de Mello, said, "We have
now an institution that, while not .
democratically elected, can be viewed, .
as broadly representative of the various
,constituencies in Iraq."
One diplomat who attended the Secu- . ' MaU Campbell/EPA
rity Council meeting said the' council ~fi Annan, second from right, met with members of the Iraqi Governing CoundL
was "not going to argue about legitima-,
cy," and instead would take a broad interpretation
of the last Security Council ty 'Council appearance, followed by
The grQuP then made Ilpublic Securi- '
resolution on Iraq, which acknowledged private meetings with Arab envoys and
the authority of the U.S.-led force there. later with the representatives of France,
But if the three representatives of the, Russia, China, Britain and the United
new Governing Council in Baghdad States. It concluded with a later afterwere
greeted with correctness rather
than warmth, it did not stop them from noon session with A11fianin his offices
casting themselves as the rightful heirs
of the fallen government of Saddam
on the 38th floor.
The U.S. delegate, John Negroponte,
Hussein and laying out their vision of urged UN members to unite behind the
Iraq's journey back to democracy
stability.
and new group, saying, "This Governing
Council deserves the full encourage-
In the Security Council meeting, Ad- ment and support of the international
nan Pachachi, a foreign minister in a communitY, and especially this body."
pre-Saddam government, said: "Our. Largely unmentioned was the prosprimary
goal is to shorten the duration pect of a new Security Council resoluof
the interim administration."
tion, hinted at last week by Secretary of
, In a later news conference, Ahmad State Colin Powell, that would give the
. Chalabi, the leader of the, IraqiNational United Nations',blessing,to
multinational force. Both
a broader
India and
Congress, an exile group during Sad- Russia have made such a resolution a
dam's rule,. took center stage, saying prerequisite for their participation in .
that the Governing Council "is united in 'any force. . ,
its dete~ination to claim full rights of Other council members, like the Gergovernment
in Iraq and to work with man representative, Gunter Pleuger,
the coalition authorities on issues that made it clear that they were eager to ex-
. will restore total arid complete sover-
, eignty to the Iraqi people quickly." pand the elastic boundaries, of the
The group's itinerary mimicked that United Nations' current mandate, which
of e.nydelegation of a legitimate govern- limits the international body to assist-
~i!1t'nt,beginning with a stop at the Iraqi ing and advising, but not controlling in
mission.on the Upper East Side where, any way, the development of new legal
the current chargé d'affaires said, they
discussed f1rmnces.
.and political institutions in Iraq.
Vieira de Mello, the UN special repre-
sentative, told the Security Council that
the new Iraq council had "the credibility
and ~'.l1thority"to be a partner, and
said that the Iraqi citizens with whom
he had met were unanimous in calling
for the United Nations to have "an energetic,
center-stage role" in putting Iraqis
"back at the helm of their country."
Iraqis "need to know that stability
will return and that the occupation will
end," he said.
This view was seconded at the later
news conference by Chalabi, who said
that "we have asked very early on the
coalition provisional authority for a
timeline" for the transfer of power.
Sketching out some principles likely
to underpin the country's new constitu"
tion, Pachachi said he envisioned the
emergence of a federal situation, a manner
of governing in which authority is
divided between national and regional
institutions. He characterized that possibility
partly as a response to pressures
for some autonomy from the Kurds. '
The New York TImes
, International Herald Tribune
Thursday, July 24, 2003