WP: France, Germany Reject U.S. Plan

[kskiska]

U.N. Role in Iraq Deemed Insufficient

Friday, September 5, 2003; Page A01

PARIS, Sept. 4 -- The leaders of France and Germany today rejected as insufficient the Bush administration's proposal to give the United Nations a greater role in Iraq's security and reconstruction, renewing a disagreement between Washington and the European allies most staunchly opposed to the war last spring.

French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, together for a regularly scheduled meeting in Dresden, Germany, said a proposed U.S. resolution failed to meet their primary concerns -- that political authority in Iraq be transferred to Iraqis as quickly as possible, and that the United Nations, not the United States, take over the main role in rebuilding Iraq.

"We are ready to examine the proposals, but they seem quite far from what for us is the primary objective, that is the transfer of political responsibility to an Iraqi government as rapidly as possible," Chirac said.

Schroeder, at Chirac's side, said that the U.S. draft showed "there is movement," but he added, "it is not dynamic enough. It doesn't go far enough."

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[roguevalley]

1. Heh-heh-heh.

I wonder if we'll have to call France Freedom?

This must be so delicious.

Remember Lafayette. Viva La France. <And Germany> <G>

[ixion]

2. viva la France

glad to see they've decided to stop taking the shaft from the Bush cabal. :bounce:

[goforit]

3. Clean up W's mess.................

It is for him to swim in!!!