Posted on 10/25/2004 6:38:19 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
Commission President Romano Prodi has backed calls by US presidential hopeful John Kerry to hold an international conference on Iraq.
The statement is likely to be interpreted as tacit support for Mr Kerry’s campaign and a criticism of George W Bush’s policies.
In an interview with the Bloomberg news agency, Mr Prodi said that the conference, proposed by Mr Kerry to re-engage the international community, would help dissolve some of the splits over the execution of the war in Iraq.
"A conference is certainly a message of a new strategy: not war but negotiation, trying to solve the problems together", Mr Prodi said.
However he backed away from an outright endorsement of the Democratic candidate.
It would "not only [be] unfair, but indelicate to interfere or to make forecasts about internal political decisions", Mr Prodi is quoted as saying.
His comments follow an endorsement of Mr Bush by Russian President, Vladimir Putin.
The Commission President is scheduled to step down from office a day before the US elections, which take place on 2 November.
Kerry's for having an international conference after he didn't have an international conference?
They want to have an international conference in Iraq, when none of them are willing to go there in the first place because they don't feel safe?
Hmm...
...and have ruled out supplying troops even to defend the UN.
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