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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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To: maquiladora
Why do the media insist on calling this a second resolution when it is really the 18th resolution?
To: Dog
The electric company is doing repairs this morning.I will be forced into a period of calm!
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posted on
03/12/2003 7:09:12 AM PST
by
MEG33
To: KellyAdmirer
That is, IMO, the main consideration.
If the resolution is stopped by a French veto, then Blair has cover.
23
posted on
03/12/2003 7:10:32 AM PST
by
hchutch
("Last suckers crossed, Syndicate shot'em up" - Ice-T, "I'm Your Pusher")
To: maquiladora
If we get the 9th the vote will be called ASAP.
To: hchutch
Yep..
25
posted on
03/12/2003 7:11:30 AM PST
by
Dog
(Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne)
To: Dog
Sounds like the Brits want to include benchmarks... Yep, and one of them is that Saddam has to go on TV nad admit that he has hidden WMD and is now going to destroy them.
Can you see that happening? Not a hope!
To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
I am wiih you, let the UN drop its own MOAB right in the middle of themselves.
27
posted on
03/12/2003 7:13:21 AM PST
by
gulfcoast6
(**Whoever gossips TO you will be a gossip OF you**)
To: maquiladora
I won't believe it until I see it. These countries are known for stabbing the U.S. in the back just at the right time!!!
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posted on
03/12/2003 7:14:06 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(The U.N. is now officially irrelevant! The building is for Sale!!!)
To: maquiladora
If it means stalling this out.....Saddam will go on live tv and admit to anything.
29
posted on
03/12/2003 7:14:31 AM PST
by
Dog
(Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne)
To: gulfcoast6
"Pickle, pickle, pickle . . . "
30
posted on
03/12/2003 7:15:44 AM PST
by
Cap Huff
To: Cap Huff
The benchmarks are:
* Saddam Hussein must come clean on Iraqi television about his weapons of mass destruction and say he will give them up.
* Iraq must identify stocks of anthrax and other chemical and biological weapons.
* Iraq must fly 30 Iraqi scientists and their families to Cyprus so they can be questioned about weapons programs free from intimidation.
* Iraq must account for unmanned drone aircraft that the United States and Britain say could be used for spraying poisons.
* Iraq must commit to destroying mobile biological warfare production units.
* Iraq must complete destruction of all banned missiles.
All of these, all, before Monday.
Ain't gonna happen.
To: maquiladora
From Jay Leno:
The latest in this war thing today Mexico is still not with us. Mexico said they dont believe that we have the right to go into Iraq. And believe me, if theres one rule that Mexico is adamant about, its respecting another countrys border.
To: Semper Paratus
If we get the 9th the vote will be called ASAP. Yep, could be as soon as today.
To: maquiladora
I am sick of resolutions. Why is the USA the only country that needs them. Why is Kofi trying to dictate our national policy? Why not send them all to France?
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posted on
03/12/2003 7:17:20 AM PST
by
dalebert
To: 1Old Pro
BUSH WILL PERSUADE MEXICO. Mexico (Fox) is having back surgery today. Interesting to see whether they can even consider a policy change.
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posted on
03/12/2003 7:17:20 AM PST
by
js1138
To: Galtoid
"I am beginning to lose faith in my president with each tick of the clock. Get to it!!!!!!!!!!! NOW!"
President Bush runs on his timetable, not ours.
We still have to get those guys through Turkey and set up, so the U.N. stuff is just to keep Saddam's people busy.
( and the Turkey business might be delay to get our men on the ground in the right places )
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posted on
03/12/2003 7:17:34 AM PST
by
RS
To: Dog
Just reported on Fox along with the date slipping to 21 March (or later):
Benchmarks that Blair is proposing for Saddam to meet:
Saddam has to go on TV and reounces weapons inispections
40 Scientists would be interviewed in Cyprus
Get rid of chemicals
Explain the drone
This is ludicrous. Enough of these rewrites. Blair has been propped up by the Country long enough. Rumsfeld gave him the out yesterday by saying we are prepared to enter Iraq without the Brits and they can come in later.
Time for President Bush to stand up and say vote on Thursday or the United States will issue its own ultimatum to Saddam and forget the UN.
Tired of America's foreign policy being held hostage by the likes of France and Cameroon, etc.
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posted on
03/12/2003 7:17:52 AM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
To: Guillermo
"Guinea? Isn't that a pig?"No! They are HENS!!!
I've got 5 of them skwaking in my back yard as I type this. They good for eating bugs, such as earwigs!!!
They are extremely noisy, stupid and irritating. They really raise cain when they spot a rattle snake, which is why we have 'em.
38
posted on
03/12/2003 7:18:04 AM PST
by
SierraWasp
(Like, hey man, SHIFT_HAPPENS!!! Besides, who wants to be scared SHIFTLESS???)
To: 1Old Pro
BUSH WILL PERSUADE MEXICO.
Bush should annex Mexico. ;)
To: steveegg
For US commonwealth status? Texas.
With Fox under the knife, perhaps Mexico will abstain.
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posted on
03/12/2003 7:19:58 AM PST
by
js1138
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