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Titolo: UK, USA e Spagna ritirano la risoluzione

UK, US and Spain withdraw draft resolution, may take
'own steps' to disarm Iraq
17 March - The United Kingdom, United States and
Spain today announced they will not pursue a vote in
the United Nations Security Council on a draft
resolution presenting an ultimatum to Iraq and said
they reserved the right to take their own steps to
secure that country's disarmament.
The announcement by Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock of
the United Kingdom came just minutes before the
Council was due to meet in a closed session on
diplomatic efforts to rid Iraq of weapons of mass.
"We have had to conclude that Council consensus will
not be possible," Ambassador Greenstock told
reporters after a weekend of discussions were held on
a British compromise setting strict disarmament tests
for Iraq to meet within a strict timetable or else
face serious consequences.
"One country in particular has underlined its
intention to veto any ultimatum 'no matter what the
circumstances,'" he said. "That country rejected our
proposed compromise before even the Iraqi Government
itself and has put forward suggestions that would
roll back on the unanimous agreement of the Council
in resolution 1441, and those suggestions would
amount to no ultimatum, no pressure and no
disarmament. Given this situation the co-sponsors
have agreed that we will not pursue a vote on the
draft UK-US-Spanish in blue."
Ambassador Greenstock noted that the communiqués and
press statements issued at the Azores summit between
the US, UK and Spanish leaders yesterday explained
the countries' position on the way forward. "The co-
sponsors reserve their right to take their own steps
to secure the disarmament of Iraq," he said.
In associating himself with Ambassador Greenstock, US
Ambassador John D. Negroponte said: "I would just
make the further point that it has been nearly four
and a half months since the Council unanimously
adopted resolution 1441, which found Iraq in material
breach and gave it a final opportunity to disarm or
face serious consequences.
"The Government of Iraq has clearly failed to comply.
Our governments believe that through acts of omission
and commission Iraq is now in further material
breach. We advocated a second resolution because a
united Council would have shown it was intent on
enforcing resolution 1441 and disarming Iraq. We
believe that the vote would have been close. I regret
that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a
permanent member, the vote counting became a
secondary consideration."
Echoing the UK and US views, Spanish Ambassador
Inocencio F. Arias said: "Resolution 1441 established
in an unequivocal way that any false statement or
omission or the sheer fact of not cooperating fully
would constitute a further material breach. We
believe that the Government of Iraq was given a last
opportunity and it has squandered it."
Reacting to the announcement, Ambassador Jean-Marc de
La Sablière France said the resolution's cosponsors
realized that the majority in the Council was against
a text authorizing the use of force. "This is the
position of the huge majority on the Council. During
the last days members of the Council repeatedly
stated that, and it is a majority in the Council,
that it would not be legitimate to authorize the use
of force now while the inspections set up by the
resolution are producing results," he said.
"And now I understand that the cosponsors made some
bilateral consultations last night and this morning
and the result is that the majority of the Council
confirms that they do not want to authorize the use
of force. The majority considers that it would not be
legitimate."

 secure that country's disarmament.
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