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UN must play central coordinating role in Iraq postwar structure

IRNA

Moscow, Sept 9, Itar-Tass/ACSNA/IRNA -- Russia holds that the United 
Nations Security Council must adopt such a resolution as would 
increase the United Nations involvement in the postwar restoration of 
Iraq and ensure the United Nations central coordinating role in the 
process, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov told Tass on 
Tuesday. 
Russia has `a number of questions to the US draft resolution on 
Iraq`, he said. 
The draft resolution will be discussed by the ministerial 
conference of the five permanent members of he United Nations Security
Council, to be held in Geneva at the weekend. Russian Foreign Minister
Igor Ivanov will take part in it. 
Fedotov said `work on the resolution goes on`. "We have 
familiarized ourselves with the American proposals and we have a 
number of questions," he said. 
"There is no complete clarity in the United States proposals, and 
the task of the present consultations is to bring closer the positions
and to arrive at the decision acceptable to all members of the 
Security Council." 
Fedotov said that Moscow `approaches these consultations in a most
responsible and constructive way`. 
Russia holds that the `multinational peacekeeping forces in Iraq 
under the United Nations auspices must be under single command and 
must report to the United Nations`. 
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov stated this to Tass 
on Tuesday. 
He said there must be a specific schedule for the restoration of 
Iraq`s sovereignty. "It must be clearly stated when, how and under 
what circumstances the Iraqi people will be able to restore its 
sovereignty and create a lawful government on the basis of democratic 
processes," Fedotov said. 
"The mandate for multinational forces must be firmly linked to 
political goals of the restoration of Iraq and must ensure prompt 
advance to the implementation of these tasks," he said. 
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