Britain, U.S. to Urge Larger UN Role in Creating a Stable Iraq

[Barrett808]

Source: Bloomberg

Britain, U.S. to Urge Larger UN Role in Creating a Stable Iraq
Bill Varner and Janine Zacharia
Thu Jul 19, 2:39 PM ET

July 19 (Bloomberg) -- Britain and the U.S. will seek a larger role for the United Nations in Iraq to try to create political stability and encourage talks with Iran and Syria on improving security, diplomats said.

The Security Council will be asked early next month to adopt a draft resolution calling for greater UN involvement, U.K. and U.S. envoys said. The U.S. ambassador to Iraq today urged the UN to play ``a more active role'' in Iraq.

``There's a lot of work they can do,'' particularly with Iraqi refugees and elections, Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today via a videoconference link from Baghdad. ``I for one would like to see them staffed more robustly to carry that forward.''

Crocker said U.S. diplomats have been in contact with the UN ``to urge them to devote the personnel and the resources to Iraq that Iraq needs and deserves.'' The mandate of the UN political mission and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special representative to Iraq, Ashraf Qazi, expires on Aug. 10.

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[mediaman007]

1. The U.N. offered to help in 2003, but Bush* wanted to make sure

the United States called all of the shots and that no-bid contracts went to the loyal supporters.

I hope to live long enough to see this administration get all that's coming to them.

[LynnTheDem]

2. Ummm...good luck with that.

ROTFLMAO!!!

[Middle finga]

3. US and UK really have some nerves

They've left Iraq FUBAR and now they want to invite the UN in to help them get out of this mess.

[FVZA_Colonel]

4. And when things fail (as they will regardless of the UN's involvement) they'll just have another

tool to demonize the UN with.

[WritersBlock]

5. Actually, I think that's a great idea.

But only if it's in exchange for Bush, Blair, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, and a few others going to the Hague to answer for their actions in putting Iraq into this situation in the first place.

[Henny Penny]

6. That might work!

Its a lot better than... "Clean up our mess please while we get started on a new one next door..."

[Karenina]

7. Steve Bell called it...