Word: vetoes
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...negotiations at the UN this week is on enlisting help to ensure the best possible outcome in the postwar. And on that score, the French have already signaled their willingness to cooperate, or at least to refrain from throwing up obstacles. President Chirac has promised that France won't veto a new Security Council resolution being pushed by the U.S. to enable a U.S.-led international security force...
...Despite ongoing differences over Iraq, however, the U.S. may yet get the Security Council resolution it seeks authorizing an international force. That's because the invasion is a fait accompli, and the French have nothing to gain, this time, by using the veto. The U.S. is now in the supplicant role, and even armed with a new UN resolution, Washington will struggle to persuade reluctant nations to send troops and money to ease the burden of occupation on a fiscally and militarily stretched America...
...would never risk a public break with a France that has become Germany's battered twin not only in the Iraq debate, but in many other controversies in Europe as well. Chirac has muted his position somewhat on Iraq, and no one is talking about a French veto this time. In Berlin, the French President spoke of a transfer of sovereignty to the Iraqi people "within a few months"; a mere week before, his excitable Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin, had demanded it "within a month." But that doesn't mean France is ready to fold, and with the German...
...officials confirmed this week that Summers has put in place a process that will allow him to screen candidates and potentially use his veto power more easily...
...treasure to back up the U.S.-run occupation authority in Baghdad, the Bush administration would not have been forced to go back to the UN in the first place. Last weekend's talks in Geneva between Secretary of State Colin Powell and the foreign ministers of the other veto-wielding Security Council members - Britain, France, Russia and China - highlighted both the potential for a new deal on Iraq, but also the extent of compromise that may be required from Washington in order to get there...