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SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH DAILY
10 November 2002 / 5 Ramadhan 1423
Iraq accepts new UN resolution, Prince Saud says
CAIRO/WASHINGTON, 10 November 2002 — Saudi Foreign
Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said yesterday that Baghdad had
accepted the United Nation’s new resolution on Iraqi disarmament
after obtaining assurances from UN Security Council member Syria,
that the resolution did not foresee automatic recourse to military
action. “The Arab ministers welcomed Iraq’s acceptance of
Resolution 1441, following assurances from Syria that this resolution
does not provide for automatic military action (against Baghdad),”
the minister told reporters in Cairo.
He was speaking after a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers
at the League’s headquarters in the Egyptian capital. The ministers
are due to hold an extraordinary meeting today.
Earlier yesterday, Iraq put a brave face on the passing of the UN
resolution giving it a last chance to disarm, insisting that the
international community had thereby foiled a US plot to wage war.
But there was no immediate sign Baghdad would automatically bow
to a document threatening “serious consequences” unless it opens
its territory to tough new weapons inspections. It has one week to
comply, and the clock began ticking on Friday.
“Iraq will study the resolution then take the appropriate position on
it,” Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said in Cairo, after meeting
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher. “The United States’ use of
the Security Council as a cover for aggression against Iraq was
foiled by the international community because the international
community does not share the appetite of the evil administration in
Washington for aggression, murder and destruction.”
US President George W. Bush, in contrast, claimed the passage of
the resolution after eight weeks of tortuous negotiation at the UN as
vindication of his uncompromising policy on Iraq. “The world has
now come together to say that the outlaw regime in Iraq will not be
permitted to build or possess chemical, biological or nuclear
weapons,” Bush said in a weekly radio address. “And my
administration will see to it that the world’s judgment is enforced.”
Co-sponsored by the United States and Britain, the resolution was
agreed after France, Russia and others persuaded Washington to
remove from its wording an explicit authorization to use force and a
call to back UN inspectors with troops. The document’s ambiguity
allows all sides to call it victory.
US officials emphasized that nothing in it prevented them from
taking military action, but Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said
it had “made a real threat of war go away”. US Secretary of State
Colin Powell called Maher and other Arab officials to ask them to
impress on Iraq that the resolution was a “final opportunity”.
In an interview, Powell again hinted that Saddam’s government
might be allowed to survive — further evidence of Washington’s
apparent shift from a position earlier this year which seemed to offer
the Iraqi president no future but overthrow through “regime change”.
“If the Iraqi regime got rid of its mass destruction weapons and
cooperates with inspectors, this will be considered a full change in
the regime,” Powell told Al-Jazeera television.
Arab foreign ministers in Cairo said yesterday they were working to
secure Iraq’s acceptance of the new resolution on disarmament to
save the Middle East from another conflict.
“Arab diplomacy, which managed in September to convince Iraq to
accept a return of weapons inspectors, will continue to work for
continued cooperation between Iraq and the United Nations,”
Lebanese Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammud told reporters after
talks with Arab League chief Amr Moussa.
Hammud said earlier the two-day meeting at League headquarters
in Cairo was taking place “because of a number of developments
that require a position emphasizing Arab solidarity.” (Agencies)
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