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...months the U.S. has quietly insisted that Damascus give up the funds. Secretary of State Colin Powell met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in May and made that unpublicized demand. Top Syrian officials have been given the names of at least two suspect banks and provided with account numbers...
...That newly responsible attitude was on display on Oct. 12, when Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing chatted on the phone with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell about the U.N.'s role in postwar Iraq. China traditionally used its permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council as a lectern for delivering anti-Western rhetoric and to protect its own narrow interests. But in his phone conversation, Li reiterated the need for everyone, including the U.N., to work on rebuilding Iraq?a break from the past, when China would have sniped from the sidelines about "American imperialism" as it did during...
...NATIONS The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Iraq establishing a U.N.-mandated multinational force under U.S. command and expanded the U.N.'s political role. Although the resolution was largely symbolic - many ambassadors said they voted for it only to maintain Council unity - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said he was now more optimistic about pledges at this week's donor conference in Madrid. But France, Germany and Russia said they'd give no more. MEANWHILE IN FIJI ... Belated Apology Hoping to lift a suspected curse, inhabitants of the remote mountain village of Navatusila have promised...
...exit strategy in Iraq - and the current UN resolution - is completing Iraq's political transformation by restoring sovereignty to an elected Iraqi government. To achieve that, a new constitution must be adopted, and elections held - a process for which the U.S. is setting an ambitious timetable. Secretary of State Colin Powell recently suggested that the IGC should finalize a new constitution within six months, but Iraqis were quick to dismiss Powell's timetable as hopelessly optimistic. Some of Iraq's most important leaders - the moderate Shiite clerics at Najaf - have insisted that an Iraqi constitution can be drawn up only...
...Chalabi and too little input from the Grand Ayatullah Ali Sistani, the most powerful Shi'a cleric, or the general Sunni populace. The Bush Administration's chosen path is more responsible but too slow--write a new constitution, have a referendum on that constitution and then hold general elections. Colin Powell has set a six-month target for the constitution, but nobody believes it can be done that quickly. Political reality may dictate that this second option will be scrapped in favor of the first: a quick and dirty transfer of power to the Governing Council next spring...