UN to hear fresh Iraq resolution
An amended resolution on Iraq is to be presented to the United Nations Security Council on Monday, diplomats have said.
The US resolution has been redrafted to win international support for peacekeeping and reconstruction in Iraq after an earlier text failed to draw broad backing.
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Iraq: Why Bush now wants the UN
By Paul Reynolds
BBC News Online world affairs correspondent
In accepting that the UN should have a security role in Iraq, President Bush has accepted reality.
Despite a recent claim by chief US administrator Paul Bremer that Iraq is "not a country in chaos and Baghdad is not a city in chaos", events suggest otherwise. Mr Bush does not want to get bogged down there.
The presidential election next year is a powerful incentive for the Bush team to consider any proposal that prevents Iraq from becoming a determining campaign issue.
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