[cookcounty]

"Why the meeting between USA, Britain and Spain this weekend?"

The Azores meeting is not a meeting about "a resolution," it is a war council. Probably a council to discuss post-war Iraq.

[kabar]

Major U.N. powers divided on lifting Iraq sanctions
September 20, 1999
Web posted at: 11:53 p.m. EDT (0353 GMT)

NEW YORK -- On the opening day of the annual U.N. General Assembly session, senior officials of the Big Five U.N. powers met Monday, seeking consensus on easing sanctions against Iraq in return for its cooperation with a new disarmament system.

The subject of sanctions and renewed inspections of suspected Iraqi weapons sites is expected to be a major controversy over the next two weeks as the United Nations grapples with what to do next in light of the Security Council deadlock.

Among the five permanent, veto-wielding Security Council members, Russia, China and France have been sympathetic to an immediate lifting of the sanctions imposed shortly after Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990.