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作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
Security Council Resisting U.S. War Plan
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By DAFNA LINZER, Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS - A U.S.-backed resolution for war in Iraq (news - web sites) was in serious doubt as a majority of Security Council members openly acknowledged they wouldn't support the measure despite weeks of intense negotiations.
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With hundreds of thousands of troops poised for action in the Persian Gulf, the White House was forced to consider withdrawing the resolution it filed three weeks ago or calling a vote it seemed certain to lose.
Either way, the United States would be heading into battle against Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), and possibly a protracted occupation of Iraq, without the backing of the United Nations (news - web sites) and its member states.
The White House hastily arranged a weekend summit between President Bush (news - web sites) and his two staunchest council allies, British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. The summit will be held in the Azores Islands in new effort to work out strategies for salvaging the trio's troubled war resolution at the U.N.
Blair spoke by telephone on Friday with French President Jacques Chirac. France infuriated London on Thursday by blocking a British attempt to come up with a war resolution that could win wider support on the Security Council.
Chirac "said he would not accept an ultimatum to Saddam," Blair's spokesman said — indicating that the 10-minute conversation did little to ease the bitter confrontation between the two leaders.
The U.S-backed resolution would set a Monday deadline for Saddam to disarm or face war. Last week, President Bush insisted he would call a vote on the measure no matter how much support it had on the council.
But with the measure sure to meet defeat — even with changes proposed by Britain — the president and his advisers debated Thursday whether to withdraw it and turn toward final war preparations.
"We are still talking to members of the council to see what is possible," Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) said. "The options remain: go for a vote and see what members say or not go for a vote."
A tense council session late Thursday made it evident that the United States didn't have more than six of the 15 council members on its side and that nothing had swayed France, or possibly Russia, from vetoing the resolution. Nine votes — and no vetoes — are needed to pass.
"This is not going to fly," Russian Ambassador Sergey Lavrov told The Associated Press.
China's ambassador, Wang Yingfan, suggested it was time for the resolution to be taken off the table. "To me it's clear, they just don't have the votes," he said.
France, China, Russia, Germany and several other council members oppose the resolution because it would automatically authorize force if Saddam failed to disarm by Monday. Britain had sought to alleviate those fears by transferring the ultimatum to a side paper that wouldn't be voted on.
But France, which led a verbal assault against the resolution, saw the move as a ploy and vowed to veto any resolution authorizing the use of force.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Friday that he is still convinced that the crisis can still be resolved by peaceful means, insisting that U.N. weapons inspections can produce real disarmament.
"We must have the courage to fight for peace as long as there is a scrap of hope that a war can be avoided," he said in a speech to parliament.
In Washington, several top administration officials said a growing number of advisers believe the resolution is doomed and they want the president to cut his losses and withdraw it. Others still hold out hope for the measure.
A decision will partly depend on whether the British prime minister wants to give diplomacy another weekend, the officials, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity.
Blair, who is facing a massive revolt inside his own party because of his pro-U.S. stand on Iraq, desperately needs U.N. authorization in order to sell a war at home. U.N. backing would lend international legitimacy to any military action and guarantee that the world body would share the costs of reconstruction.
U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte left the 4 1/2-hour council meeting Thursday saying that "time is running out." In light of Britain's efforts, he said Washington was prepared to "go the extra mile as far as seeing if we can reach some kind of basis for understanding within the council."
In Iraq, Saddam's government exulted in the diplomatic turmoil.
The allies "have lost the round before it starts while we, along with well-intentioned powers in the world, have won it," the popular daily Babil, owned by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's son, Odai, said in a front-page editorial.
Six uncommitted nations — Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Guinea, Mexico and Pakistan — tried Thursday to bridge the deep divide.
Washington had been counting on the support of Mexico, Pakistan and at least two of the African nations. But it wasn't there Thursday.
In Santiago, Chile, the Foreign Ministry issued a statement after the council meeting ended in New York, saying: "Should a vote come tomorrow, we will not support it, we will reject it."
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