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de la Prensa-Baszn Özeti
La France ne risque-t-elle
pondre. C'est un enjeu très im- communauté internationale.
pas d'apparaître,
portant, au-delà même de C'est le principe même de la sél'Irak.
Soyons unis et respon- curité et de la responsabilité
/lUX
Etats-Unis notamment,
comme le pays qui fait obstacle
à une action en Irak ?
sables.
collectivesqui est en jeu. Nous
A travers cette bataille à devons être de plus en plus dépropos
d'une résolution .terminés mais aussi de plus en
L'imjeu.ce n'est pas la relation sur l'Irak. c'est donc le sys- . plus solidaires. J'ajoute que
entre la v.rance et les Etats- tème de sécurité collective l'usage de la force ne peut
Unis. Elle est excellente. Nous qui selo~ vous est enjeu? . constituer qU'lm ultime re- .
travaillonsdans un esprit dé solidarité
et de coopération. Les Nous sommes mobilisés au- aSsurer la paix ill même la sé-
Distinguons bien les choses. cours. Elle ne peut.à elle seule
idées que nous défendons bénéficientd'un
très large soutien ponse à la crise irakienne; c'est. Proche-Orient.
jourd'hui pour apporter une ré- curité. DI) le voit bien au
comme l'a montré le débat récent
au Conseil de sécurité. pondre collectivementest éga- une vision'du monde qui mobi-
. là l'urgence. Pouvoir y ré- ilfaut une perspectivepolitique,
L'enjeude cette résolution,c'est lement une exigence essen- lisent et rassemblent toutes les
l'attitude de la communauté in- tielle.ilest de l'intérêt de tous Y énergies. Depuis le début de
.ternationale faceà une crise, en compris des Etats-Unisde par~ l'année, ily a un mouvement en
J'occurrence la crise irakienne, venir à une résolution qui' " profondeur du monde arabe
et c'est sa capacité à y ré-
marque l'adhésion de toute la. qui s'est exprimé à travers l'initiative
saoudienne sur le
Proche-Orient, reprise par le
Sommet afabe de]3eyrouth.
Aujourd'hui, face aux.menaces'
qui s'accumulent, le terrorisme,
.la prolifération, l'intégrisme, il
faut une réponse globale, une
réponse collective, fondée sur
des valeurS et des règles como.
munes. La tolérance et le dialogue
représente'nt nos
meilleures armes contre le fanatisme,
pour assurer durablement
la stabilité du monde. Il
ne faut pas céder à la spirale de
la peur ni à la'violence, ce qui
ne peut qu'accroître l'incompréhension
entre les peuples et
multiplierles fractures.
UN edges toward pact on Iraq
France mulls over U.S.wording on pre-attack consultations
By Brian Knowlton The meeting was one of several Blix demands for a UN voice on any mili-
Internatloual H~ld 1iIbune has held with officials of Security tary action.
WASHINGTON= The United States
and France moved closer to agreement
Wednesday on a UN resolution on Iraq,
diplomats said, after Washington
offered to include language in the document
that would require it to consult
the world body before launching any at-
.tack on Iraq.
France, which has led opposition to
any language that might be used as an
automatic "triper" for U.S.military action,
was d1scussing u.S.-proposed
compromise language with other Secu-
. rity Council members Wednesday, diplomats
said.
"I think We are getting closer," Secretary
ofState Colin Powell said earlier.
But An Fleischer, the White House
spokesman, said that the United States
. meant to keep language that some UN
Security Council members fear could
imply an authorization of the use of
force.
"The resolution must state that there
are consequences" for any Iraqi failure
to cooperate with UN weapons inspectors,
Fleischer told reporters here, and
it "must state that Iraq is in material
breach" of resolutions passed after the
Gulf War of 1991 to stringently curb its'
weapons programs,
Fleischer made the comments after
President Geolle W. Bush met at the
White House Wlth Hans Blix, the chief
UN weapons inspector, and Mohammed
Baradei, director-general of
the International Atomic Energy
Agency, which would inspect nuclear
programs in Iraq.
. Bush underscored the need for a rigorous
inspections system to find and
destroy banned Iraqi weapons, Fleischer
said, adding that the UN officials
agreed.
"The inspectors don't want to be the
mouse in a cat-and-mouse game" with
Iraq, he said. "They have to have the
ability tO.dotheir iob." .
Council member nations. He also met The ,United States probably needs
Wednesday in Washington with Vice France or Russia - ferhaps both - to
President Dick Cheney and the national back its resolution i it is to secure the
security adviser, Condoleezza Rice. nine votes needed for adoption on the
The progress with France reportedly IS-country council Both have expressed
came as the U.S. side agreed to put in serious reservations, but neither they
writing its earlier assurances that the nor China has threatened a veto.
United States would not initiate mili- Ambassador Sergei Lavrov said Wedtary
action before consulting with Se- nesday that Moscow did not want the
curity Council members. Washington, use of force to be automatic, "and this is
however, has not accepted Fre~ch calls still our position." He did not comment
for a second resolution dealing with a on the la.test compromise language
possible military strike.
offered by the U.S. side.
One administration official, speak- The Bush administration, after earliing
on condition of anonymity, said that er expressing impatience with th~ Secuthe
United States was also prepared to rity Council, now appears content to
give Iraq more time than earlier wait for a vote until after the congresprovided
to account for its chemical sional elections in the Uni.ted States on
programs. . Thesday, lest any setback hurt caridi-
The administration reportedly is also dates from Bush's Republican Party.
easing a demand that Iraq permit its sci~. Secretary of State Colin Powell,
entists linked to weap'o~sprograms to asked Thesday how long the United
be removèd, with famdy members, from States could wait for UN action, told rethe
country to be interviewed. That, porters,"I don't want to give you days or
Blix saki, could be problematic for a week, but it certainly isn't much
Baghdad. Under new language, such in- longer than that."
terviews would be permitted but not re- Powell said that "our basic principles
quired, a U.S. official said.
remain the same," warning that if the Se-
Fleischer indicated no deadline for curity Council failèd to act, Bush had
the Security Council to reach agree- "what he believes isthe authority needed
ment on the U.S.- and British-backed' and, frankly, the obligation toact with
draft.
like-minded nations to disarm Iraq."
He said again, however, that Bush was A White House official said the' adcommitted
to giving the UN a chance to ministration was using that threat as a
prove its effectiveness. "Whether or not strategy to compel Russia and France to
the UN means it, we will soon find out," 'back the U.S.-British resolution.
Fleischer said. Powell has held intense telephone
France wants the Security Council to consultations with key counterparts -
pass a first resolution, setting out a Dominique de Villepin of France, Igor
mandate for UN weapons inspections Ivanov of Russia and Jack Straw of Briin
Iraq, then to hold a second vote after tain - and with the UN secretary-geninspectors
report back to the world eral, Kofi Annan.
body but before any military strike is The current text, officially proposed
launched.
by the United States with British sup-
At the crux of negotiations is how the port, says that any Iraqi failure to com-
Security Council deliberations after the .ply fully with terms of the new resoluinspectors'
return would be framed, tion - which gives' inspectors broad
and whether a second fonnal resolution powers to search any site - "shall con-
- or simply a debate - would satisfy .stitute a further material breach."
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