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...threatens "use of all necessary means" if Saddam Hussein fails to comply. "The resolution, or resolutions, must be strong enough ... that they produce disarmament and not just inspections," said U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. That was the easy part. State Department official Marc Grossman visited France and Russia - veto-holding Security Council members along with China - to win support for the draft. France and China want a two-step process with a second resolution should Iraq defy the U.N. Russia opposes the use of force and insists no new resolution is needed. The wrangling continues. FRANCE Foiled Bombing Customs...
...would liken it to the League of Nations - an ineffectual post World War I talk-shop boycotted by the U.S. But the United Nations is nothing more than the sum of its parts, and it is the member states - particularly the "Permanent Five" members of the Security Council granted veto power at the end of World War II - that will have to be persuaded. That process may take longer, and offer Saddam Hussein more wiggle room, than Washington would have liked...
Russia may be a shadow of its former superpower self, and its economy today is smaller than Portugal's. But it does still have the same power as the U.S., Britain, France and China to veto UN Security Council resolutions. That's why President Bush on Thursday sent an envoy to Moscow in an effort to persuade President Vladimir Putin to back a tough new UN ultimatum to Iraq to disarm, or else. Russia has maintained that Saddam Hussein's recent offer to comply with new arms inspections means that no new resolutions are necessary. But Kremlin-watchers have long...
...France is moving closer to the U.S. position; Bush's announcement that the U.S. will rejoin the Paris-based U.N. cultural agency unesco, officials say, was a plum aimed at rewarding the French. Russian support for action is also close, U.S. negotiators claim, and China, the last of the veto-wielding permanent members, is probably going to go along with the group consensus. "I think all the members of the council are now seized with the issue," Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday at the U.N. Whether that means they will go along with the U.S. exactly...
...then on the weekend publicly calling the siege "unhelpful" (and unlikely to stop terror attacks). By Sunday, Israel had ceased demolition activities and opened talks over resolving the standoff. The Bush Administration is also trying to head off a Security Council resolution condemning the Israeli action, because using its veto in support of Israel won't help win Arab converts to the cause of regime-change in Baghdad. But resolving the standoff won't be easy: Israel is demanding the surrender of some 50 wanted men inside Arafat's HQ; the Palestinian leader has rejected that demand and insists...