IN
THE NEWS - United Nations Approves U.S. Resolution on Iraq
By Cynthia Kirk
This is Steve Ember with In the News, from VOA
Special English.
The United Nations Security
Council（联合国安全理事会）this week approved an American resolution（决议）on
Iraq. All fifteen members voted Thursday to support the resolution.
These included France, Germany, Russia and Syria（叙利亚）,
which had all opposed the war in Iraq.
The United States says it hopes the resolution
will get more countries to provide troops and aid to help rebuild Iraq.
Several countries had said they would not send troops unless the Security
Council passed a new resolution. The United States and Britain plan
to request more aid at an international conference next week in Spain.
The resolution calls for the establishment of
an American-led international force in Iraq. The resolution also urges
U-N members to provide troops and money to support the occupation. The
plan gives Iraq's temporary governing council until December fifteenth
to set time limits to write a constitution（宪法）and
hold elections.
The new resolution had been changed five times
since August. The U-N wanted greater influence in political decisions
about Iraq. And France, Russia and Germany wanted the United States
to return power within a few months to a temporary government in Baghdad.
The United States rejected these demands. But
this week it presented new compromises（让步）.
The changes give the United Nations greater
influence in the constitutional process in Iraq. The changes also guarantee
the need for additional approval to keep the international force in
Iraq after a new government is sworn in. But the resolution does not
set a date for Iraqis to take power（取得政权）.
The vote Thursday came after days of negotiations.
France, Germany and Russia agreed to support the resolution after a
conference call（电话会议）among their leaders.
The call took place hours before the vote. Those three countries were
the leading opponents of the war in Iraq.
After the vote, however, France, Germany and
Russia said they would not provide troops or additional money to support
the coalition efforts in Iraq. They said the resolution does not go
far enough to re-establish Iraqi control.
The Bush administration increased its efforts
to seek a new resolution after the bombing at the U-N headquarters in
Baghdad in August. The chief U-N diplomat in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de
Mello, was among the twenty-two people killed.
In September, President Bush told the General
Assembly that the United States would deal with calls to expand U-N
involvement in the change of power in Iraq. But Secretary General Kofi
Annan demanded greater independence and security guarantees for the
United Nations in exchange.
The Security Council remains divided on the
future of Iraq. But a spokeswoman for French President Jacques Chirac
said the vote on the resolution was important, above all, as a show
of unity.
In the News, from VOA Special English, was written
by Cynthia Kirk. This is Steve Ember.
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