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France opposes second resolution { February 23 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53586-2003Feb23.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53586-2003Feb23.html France Opposes Second Iraq Resolution, Source Says Reuters Sunday, February 23, 2003; 2:17 PM PARIS (Reuters) - France opposed a second U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq for now, a French diplomatic source said Sunday, as Washington prepared a new resolution contending Baghdad was failing to comply on disarmament demands. The diplomatic source said President Jacques Chirac believed U.N. weapons inspectors needed more time to complete their work. "We are still and remain in the inspections phase" allowed for by resolution 1441 on Iraq, the diplomatic source said. France has veto power in the U.N. Security Council. The source said Paris believed Washington was raising the tempo with a view to getting rapid adoption of a second resolution hot on the heels of a report that chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix is due to make on March 7. France was preparing to present a "memorandum" to the United Nations in the next few days setting out specific tasks which might serve as benchmarks for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to comply with U.N. demands that he get rid of weapons of mass destruction. Iraq denies having such weapons. A memo was not regarded as a draft resolution, the source said. Secretary of State Colin Powell told a news conference in Tokyo he expected the Security Council to make a judgment about a new resolution on Iraq -- to be presented by the United States and Britain as early as Monday -- soon after the inspectors' report on March 7. Washington and London want a new resolution seen as paving the way for an attack on Iraq if they feel Baghdad has not complied with U.N. disarmament demands. In addition to France, two other permanent members of the Security Council -- China and Russia -- have said the U.N. inspectors should be given more time in Iraq. But it is not clear whether any of those countries would use their veto against a second resolution, or merely abstain. © 2003 Reuters

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