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http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=3076274&startrow=11&date=2003-03-04&do_alert=0 RUSSIA NOT GOING TO STAY PASSIVE WHEN IRAQ COMES UP FOR DISCUSSION IN UN SECURITY COUNCIL Russian Information Agency March 4, 2003 LONDON, March 4, 2003. /From RIA Novosti correspondent/. Russia is not going to remain passive when the UN Security Council starts discussing the Iraqi issue. "For Russia in a situation like this with Iraq, keeping aloof is not the right kind of policy," said Russia's Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov on Tuesday, at an Internet conference on the BBC. The minister recalled that Russia, like the other permanent UN Security Council members, has the right of veto. And if the need arises, Russia may use this right, Ivanov said. According to the minister, Moscow intends to press for unity in the UN Security Council. In Ivanov's view, a split in the Security Council may make the situation more complex. The Russian diplomatic chief made it clear that the US and the UK, in his view, would find it hard to persuade other Security Council members of the need to pass a second resolution on the Iraqi issue. "We believe that Iraq's disarmament can be achieved, and there is no element of play in Russia's position. Refraining is not the kind of position Russia will take," he said. The Russian diplomatic supremo said that Russia is ready to take on the "party of war". If, however, the war nevertheless breaks out, Russia will try to stop it and re-route settlement of the situation into political channels, the Russian minister said. Ivanov remarked that Russia is not ready to use force to solve the Iraqi crisis. ------------------------------------------------------ http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=3076265&startrow=11&date=2003-03-04&do_alert=0 Russian Information Agency March 4, 2003 IF WAR BREAKS OUT IN IRAQ, MOSCOW WILL WORK TO STOP IT: FOREIGN MINISTER LONDON, March 4. /RIA Novosti/ - If war breaks out in Iraq, Moscow will work to stop it and re-route the situation into political channels, Igor Ivanov, Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, said to a BBC web conference. There is still a chance to avoid use of force. Russia firmly insists on the crisis settled by political means, and will go on using such means. The USA and other countries which are out to sever the knot bypassing the UN Security Council are badly blundering, stressed the minister. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bdn7KI.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^================================================================
