U.K. May Back New U.N. Move on Iraq

The UK government is for the first time talking openly about backing a new United Nations security council resolution on Iraq with the aim of giving India, Pakistan, Turkey and other states the domestic political cover they need to contribute to a multinational force.

As the US and UK look at ways of sharing the military burden of post-war Iraq, a top government officials has said preliminary negotiations over such a resolution could begin at the UN within a few weeks.

In an interview with the Financial Times, John Sawers, the Foreign Office's political director, said : "We are exploring among ourselves - and we are exploring with the Americans - what the pros and cons might be."

Mr Sawers, who has just finished three months duty as the UK's special representative in Iraq, acknowledged that governments in India, Pakistan and Turkey would find it much easier to send troops to Iraq if they could tell their electorates that there was explicit UN authority to do so.

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let Colon Bowel throw down the US veto on a new resolution to rob * of his prize. Show the world how small these "men" really are.

This merits attention!