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...sought to empower weapons inspectors to authorize no-fly and no-drive zones around inspection sites. It also allows inspectors to remove Iraqi experts and their families from the country to conduct interviews. The toned-down document was meant to assuage the concerns of France and Russia, which could veto any resolution. But while Paris seemed resigned to accepting the new U.S. proposal, Moscow looked likely to test Bush's patience further. YUGOSLAVIA Arms for Iraq Assistant Defense Minister Ivan Djokic was sacked following allegations that a state-run company was linked to arms sales to Iraq, in violation...
...military action if Baghdad fails to comply. Emphasizing that his patience is wearing thin and that unilateral action remains an option, President Bush warned Tuesday that the "UN must act now or be relegated to nothing more than a debating club." But most other Council members, led by veto-wielding France and Russia, remain determined to avoid endorsing language that could in any way be construed by Washington as sanctioning an attack on Iraq before the UN itself has ruled on whether Iraq is cooperating satisfactorily with renewed arms inspections...
...Washington's dismay, Chirac had the support of the majority of the 15-member Security Council, including Russia. Despite the cajoling of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Vladimir Putin said he was opposed to any resolution allowing the automatic use of force against Saddam. (China, the other veto power, stayed on the fence throughout the debate.) In the end, Bush managed to get a face-saving solution: a single resolution, but the U.S. would give more weight to the inspectors' report. RUSSIA Moscow Mayhem The Governor of Magadan, a region in Russia's Far East, was shot dead...
Washington says only such a definite promise of force could make inspections work. Critics see these terms as ones that no one could accept. France and Russia, with veto power in the council, are leading the campaign to tone down the terms enough to give inspections a chance. Both balk at writing in an advance approval for war; France wants to reserve that for a second resolution, in the event Iraq fails to fulfill the first. The Administration now seems resigned to working out a program that most of the council--the U.S. needs nine yeses, no vetoes--can live...
...says. But he has read the fine print of the Nice Treaty and doesn't like the terms - this young man from a former communist country thinks they're undemocratic. "It changes the whole European scheme in favor of the big nations," he argues. Countries will lose their veto rights on some issues; a cozy club of longtime members will be permitted to cook up cooperation schemes that exclude newcomers; no longer will each nation be perpetually guaranteed a commissioner in Brussels. "The current arrangements are working well enough. I want to be part of Europe, but the old Europe...