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One Vote Away From 2nd Resolution
CNN | Wednesday, March 12, 2003 Posted: 9:42 AM EST (1442 GMT)

Posted on 03/12/2003 6:59:49 AM PST by maquiladora

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration believes that it is one vote shy of having nine of 15 votes needed on a U.N. Security Council resolution that sets a Monday deadline for Iraqi compliance, a senior U.S. State Department official said, and officials are focusing diplomatic energies on Mexico and Chile.

President Bush has spent much of the last week on the telephone, lobbying council members to support the resolution.

"Bush and [British Prime Minister Tony] Blair are attempting to do whatever it takes to get the Latins to commit," the official told CNN's Andrea Koppel.

Blair told members of the House of Commons on Wednesday that the council was considering a series of benchmarks that Iraq would have to meet to prove it was disarming -- a step that Chile and Mexico previously suggested.

The State Department official also said the United States is confident it has the support of the three African members of the Security Council -- Cameroon, Guinea and Angola -- despite a visit this week by French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin to secure their opposition to the resolution.

In addition, U.S. and Pakistani officials said Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf can be counted on for his support when a vote happens this week.

That leaves Mexico and Chile as holdouts, the State Department official said. To secure these votes, the United States, Great Britain and Spain have teamed up to work all the angles. On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell held a three-way conference call with his allied counterparts as they coordinated strategies.

Nevertheless, Russia and France have threatened to veto the resolution. Nine council votes are needed to pass the resolution, but a veto by any of the five permanent members would defeat it. Britain, France, Russia, China and the United States are permanent members.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; un
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1 posted on 03/12/2003 6:59:49 AM PST by maquiladora
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To: maquiladora
Read it slowly....this is very good:

The Bush administration believes that it is one vote shy of having nine of 15 votes needed on a U.N. Security Council resolution that sets a Monday deadline for Iraqi compliance.

Looks like March 17th is back on!

2 posted on 03/12/2003 7:01:13 AM PST by maquiladora
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To: maquiladora
I wish they would all vote no. Destroy the UN first.
3 posted on 03/12/2003 7:02:52 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (UN delende est!)
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To: Dog
Things are going better than we thought!
4 posted on 03/12/2003 7:02:54 AM PST by maquiladora
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To: maquiladora
How much more of this charade can we tolerate?
I am beginning to lose faith in my president with each tick of the clock. Get to it!!!!!!!!!!! NOW!
5 posted on 03/12/2003 7:03:34 AM PST by Galtoid
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To: maquiladora
Mexico is holding out? For what?

Don't make any concessions, President Bush. Fox has got to have the incentive to clean up his own house--not push his problems across the border into ours.

6 posted on 03/12/2003 7:03:52 AM PST by Kevin Curry
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To: maquiladora
I think it would destroy the UN more quickly to get 9 or 10 yes votes, and a French veto.
7 posted on 03/12/2003 7:04:07 AM PST by Ingtar
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To: maquiladora
I don't want to be a nit picker......but I will believe it when I see it.

Sounds like the Brits want to include benchmarks..

8 posted on 03/12/2003 7:04:13 AM PST by Dog (Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne)
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To: maquiladora
I think the press is going to stir us to insanity soon.
9 posted on 03/12/2003 7:04:19 AM PST by MEG33
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To: maquiladora
Mexico had better go along....
10 posted on 03/12/2003 7:04:19 AM PST by Tamzee (There are 10 types of people... those who read binary, and those who don't.)
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To: maquiladora
This would help Blair keep his job, at least. Other than that, the UN stuff looks pretty useless at this point, and every article on it points to a completely different likely outcome. The UN is just getting in the way, but at least it is clarifying who are our friends and who are our enemies.
11 posted on 03/12/2003 7:05:31 AM PST by KellyAdmirer
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To: MEG33
I'll be leaving for work soon......so I will be away from this madness for 8 hours.....:-)
12 posted on 03/12/2003 7:05:45 AM PST by Dog (Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne)
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To: maquiladora
The Bush administration believes that it is one vote shy of having nine of 15 votes needed on a U.N. Security Council resolution that sets a Monday deadline for Iraqi compliance.

Careful how you interpret this. As much as I hope it's true...it doesn't say which Monday. It could be the 6th Monday in June.

13 posted on 03/12/2003 7:05:55 AM PST by scubadan
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To: maquiladora
BUSH WILL PERSUADE MEXICO.
14 posted on 03/12/2003 7:06:48 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: maquiladora
Cameroon, Guinea, Angola, Chile and Mexico...is US policy subject to their demands and whims now?

Cameroon? Isn't that a cookie?

Guinea? Isn't that a pig?

Angola? Isn't that run by Communists?

Chile? Isn't that what they eat in Texas?

Mexico? Aren't they the ones who are invading our southern border?
15 posted on 03/12/2003 7:06:48 AM PST by Guillermo (Sic 'Em)
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To: Kevin Curry
Mexico is holding out? For what?

For US commonwealth status?

16 posted on 03/12/2003 7:06:49 AM PST by steveegg (Clinton and Blair didn't get UN authorization to launch Operation Desert (Kill Impeachment) Fox)
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To: maquiladora
That is a good point. Frankly, my eye glazed right past this to the part about the benchmarks (which I find terribly troubling). I hope the way it reads about a Monday deadline is in fact the situation.

I still think, given the current situation, 9 yes votes plus a veto is the optimal development. Good for initial PR and goes a long way to sink the U.N.
17 posted on 03/12/2003 7:07:19 AM PST by Cap Huff
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To: Tamsey
US-Chile Free Trade Agreement

Has not been voted on Yet!!!!!!!!!

18 posted on 03/12/2003 7:08:41 AM PST by scooby321
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To: Galtoid
Don't lose faith. If we get 9 votes and the resolution gets vetoed, we still win. Bush is showing admirable loyalty to the Brits.
19 posted on 03/12/2003 7:08:43 AM PST by SternTrek
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To: Kevin Curry
Don't make any concessions, President Bush. Fox has got to have the incentive to clean up his own house--not push his problems across the border into ours.

This is the whole problem with "international diplomacy" - we must sell the barn and accept policies of our so-called friends that are definitely NOT in our interest, in exchange for permission to do something that arguably may be in our interest - that no country ought to have the right to icksnay in the first place.

Why there are so called conservatives who don't see this fundamental problem is beyond my poor mind's capacity to fathom.

20 posted on 03/12/2003 7:08:49 AM PST by Publius Maximus
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