http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=3&u=/ap/20030806/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_iraqUNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) urged the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to recognize the Iraq (news - web sites)'s new Governing Council as a step toward the formation of a true government.
Annan also said the Security Council should establish a U.N. mission in Iraq and he chided the members for failing to say anything about the 25-member Governing Council after three of its members addressed a Security Council meeting on July 22.
Spain circulated a draft statement after that meeting welcoming the Governing Council as an important first step toward the formation of an internationally recognized government in Iraq. But it was not adopted because of differing views among the 15 council nations.
More than four months after the bitterly divided Security Council refused to back the war in Iraq, the U.S.-led occupation and the U.N.'s postwar role remain sensitive issues. Despite this, Iraq was still one of the key items on the agenda of Annan's monthly lunch with the council.
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