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Thursday, August 21, 2003

U.S. request for more troops in Iraq received coolly at U.N.

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NEW YORK -- France and other opponents of the war in Iraq gave a tepid response yesterday to a Bush administration request at the United Nations for additional troops.

Two days after a suicide truck bomber destroyed the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing at least 23 persons, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell met U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to discuss a new Security Council resolution.

The United States is seeking passage of a resolution that would make it easier for nations such as India, Turkey and Pakistan to contribute troops -- under the U.S. command -- to the American-led multinational force in Iraq.

"I think anybody making the contribution, a military contribution, sending their young men and women into harm's way, want them to be under solid, responsible, competent military leadership of the kind that is being provided by the coalition and the military component of the coalition," Mr. Powell said.

France, which led opposition to the war in the United Nations, responded by chiding the United States for failing to build a "genuine" international partnership.

Iraq's reconstruction requires "the joint mobilization of the entire international community," French Ambassador Michel Duclos said.

"But that is only possible if the Coalition Provisional Authority acknowledges they could not succeed alone," he said, using the name for the U.S.-led administration in Iraq.

Mr. Duclos said that coalition authorities should permit the return of U.N. weapons inspectors to search for weapons of mass destruction, and that the coalition should cooperate more actively with noncoalition members.

"To share the burden and the responsibilities in a world of equal and sovereign nations also means sharing information and authority," Mr. Duclos said.

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