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03-22-2004, 04:22 AM
(from www.abc.es, translated by google)
In order to maintaine the troops, the PSOE wants UN to grant NATO the control of Iraq.
This week arrives at Madrid the special delegate from Blair Iraq to meet Zapatero; London would have "to sell" to Washington the advantages of the plan
http://www.abc.es/abc/pg040322/prensa/fotos/200403/22/NAC_NAC_web_4.jpg
Spanish soldiers of the multinational brigade "Plus Ultra" return to their base in Diwaniya, after carrying out a patrol
MADRID/WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS. The team of Foreign Affairs of the PSOE is working to forced marches to lead back the diplomatic situation in Iraq towards a scene that allows to maintain the Spanish troops unfolded there beyond the 30 of June and not to have to fulfill its promise to retire them, which would put the relations between Washington and the new Government in a situation very jeopardizes. No matter how much general Sanchez says that the exit of our troops will not affect to the security system of the allies, politically Washington has sent messages more than unequivocal through Colin Powell ("it is not hour which the allies leave running of Iraq") or of own George Bush on the "inconvenience" of an unilateral retirement.
Sources near the socialist Executive have explained to ABC that the scene that it looks for Rodriguez Zapatero is a complex board in which there is to move many cards to obtain that the North Americans accept a resolution of the UN that "makes up" the authority in Iraq and recomposes, of step, the relations with Germany and France, deteriorated from the previous months to the war.
To begin to withdraw of the U.S.A..
The Bush Administration tries, same the 30 of June - date limit fixed by Zapatero to make return to the Spanish troops of Iraq to make a ceremony to give enhancement to the retirement of a complete division (30,000 men) that it has parked in Kirkuk. Bush thus tries to begin to give Fuste to its electoral campaign in the matter of foreign policy, transmitting the sensation of which the situation is being standardized in the Arab country and the soldiers begin to return to house. If the Americans begin to leave Iraq, it would seem logical - he thinks the socialist source consulted by ABC that by then already was a resolution of the UN that distributed to the military weight of the operation in that country towards other shoulders, not only the North Americans, and in Ferraz they are convinced that the United States would not put repairs to that new resolution.
For it, the PSOE has begun to estimate to the Latin American countries that they form part of the Security Council, Chile and Brazil. Both countries have socialist governments at the moment and the relations of Rodriguez Zapatero with Ricardo Lakes and Luiz Inacio Lula are very narrow and both it visited in the beginning in the previous weeks of the electoral campaign. The position of Chile already was left the past year clear, in the days of the eternal meetings of the Council to approve the resolutions against the regime of Sadam Husein, and the vote of Brazil is symbolically very important by its demographic weight and its situation of leadership in Ibero-America. The position of Lula is dazzling as far as the war of Iraq and the necessity of a new resolution that legitimizes the presence of the troops there
Zapatero, in addition to Brazil and Chile, would have the explicit support of France, permanent member, and of Germany, both vehement opponents to the operation in Iraq, and with the possible connivencia of Great Britain, whose prime minister needs - after the problems that a gesture caused to him to the Kelly- case to try to ingratiate itself with its public opinion. In this respect, the next week Zapatero will arrive at Madrid to meet itself with Rodriguez the special representative for Iraq de Tony Blair, Jeremy Greenstock. In the meeting the Spanish Socialists will try to convince the British Government of which she supports a new resolution that serves at the same time not to disappoint its voters and to convince to the United States. London would be the interlocutor suitable - and perhaps the unique one who Washington would accept.
The text of that new resolution would establish a formula according to which the Civilian administration of Iraq would be under control of United Nations. In the PSOE already possible names for the position of representative of the UN in Bagdad have been shuffled even, like the one of the Italian Emma Bonino, ex- European comisaria, that assumed a central role in the crisis of Kosovo and that would be Vista by the North Americans well. The election of an Iraqian leader appears like a more complex subject and some formulas, like Brahimi, "have discarded by the frontal opposition that would present/display the chiíes", say in the socialist Executive.
The problem arrives when consensuar the military command, where two options are opened. First, that the UN entrusted the military direction of a single country, since it did with Australia in Timor This; in this case, those would be the North Americans that became position of the operation. This option would have few possibilities of prospering since Washington would continue supporting to the weight and human cost of the same one, with the very near elections and would suppose in political terms to legitimize the present situation. Second, by that the PSOE inclines, it would try that outside NATO the one that took the weight of the operation, following the model developed in Afghanistan. What it does not seem possible is that the Atlantic Alliance directly replaced the Polish control in the sector the center-south of Iraq where they are the Spanish troops, since, as already it noticed the minister of French Defense, Aliot-Marie, in the meeting of Munich of February, is legally impossible that a mission of the Alliance is put under the military command of one of its countries members. The Afghan solution consists of two different missions: one that makes of bilateral form the United States and other than registers NATO (ISAF), but under sponsorship of the UN and with own control. But for it a local government is needed as or he exists in Kabul, or its defect that the civil provisional administration is transferred the United Nations.
Advantages for all
This option would allow to France and Germany to get up itself formally to the reconstruction of Iraq, like already it is possible in Afghanistan, and to the United States to distribute the military and human cost of the reconstruction, besides to avoid that it spreads the example and the international coalition it cracks in benefit of which they look for the instability in Iraq. As far as Zapatero, it could maintain the troops without failing to fulfill his electoral promise formally.
This one is the "quadrature of the circle iraqui '" that it tries to stage of here to the 30 of June the PSOE. He works in it to all machine, and Zapatero will have to respond to the calls of Condolezza Rice, the adviser of Security of Bush, that has tried to talk with the socialist leader from Thursday while ZP was "lost" in Lanzarote with their family fulfilling a promise to their wife. At the moment, already they have spoken, in a positive tone, Colin Powell and the future Secretary of State, Miguel Moratinos Angel.
In order to maintaine the troops, the PSOE wants UN to grant NATO the control of Iraq.
This week arrives at Madrid the special delegate from Blair Iraq to meet Zapatero; London would have "to sell" to Washington the advantages of the plan
http://www.abc.es/abc/pg040322/prensa/fotos/200403/22/NAC_NAC_web_4.jpg
Spanish soldiers of the multinational brigade "Plus Ultra" return to their base in Diwaniya, after carrying out a patrol
MADRID/WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS. The team of Foreign Affairs of the PSOE is working to forced marches to lead back the diplomatic situation in Iraq towards a scene that allows to maintain the Spanish troops unfolded there beyond the 30 of June and not to have to fulfill its promise to retire them, which would put the relations between Washington and the new Government in a situation very jeopardizes. No matter how much general Sanchez says that the exit of our troops will not affect to the security system of the allies, politically Washington has sent messages more than unequivocal through Colin Powell ("it is not hour which the allies leave running of Iraq") or of own George Bush on the "inconvenience" of an unilateral retirement.
Sources near the socialist Executive have explained to ABC that the scene that it looks for Rodriguez Zapatero is a complex board in which there is to move many cards to obtain that the North Americans accept a resolution of the UN that "makes up" the authority in Iraq and recomposes, of step, the relations with Germany and France, deteriorated from the previous months to the war.
To begin to withdraw of the U.S.A..
The Bush Administration tries, same the 30 of June - date limit fixed by Zapatero to make return to the Spanish troops of Iraq to make a ceremony to give enhancement to the retirement of a complete division (30,000 men) that it has parked in Kirkuk. Bush thus tries to begin to give Fuste to its electoral campaign in the matter of foreign policy, transmitting the sensation of which the situation is being standardized in the Arab country and the soldiers begin to return to house. If the Americans begin to leave Iraq, it would seem logical - he thinks the socialist source consulted by ABC that by then already was a resolution of the UN that distributed to the military weight of the operation in that country towards other shoulders, not only the North Americans, and in Ferraz they are convinced that the United States would not put repairs to that new resolution.
For it, the PSOE has begun to estimate to the Latin American countries that they form part of the Security Council, Chile and Brazil. Both countries have socialist governments at the moment and the relations of Rodriguez Zapatero with Ricardo Lakes and Luiz Inacio Lula are very narrow and both it visited in the beginning in the previous weeks of the electoral campaign. The position of Chile already was left the past year clear, in the days of the eternal meetings of the Council to approve the resolutions against the regime of Sadam Husein, and the vote of Brazil is symbolically very important by its demographic weight and its situation of leadership in Ibero-America. The position of Lula is dazzling as far as the war of Iraq and the necessity of a new resolution that legitimizes the presence of the troops there
Zapatero, in addition to Brazil and Chile, would have the explicit support of France, permanent member, and of Germany, both vehement opponents to the operation in Iraq, and with the possible connivencia of Great Britain, whose prime minister needs - after the problems that a gesture caused to him to the Kelly- case to try to ingratiate itself with its public opinion. In this respect, the next week Zapatero will arrive at Madrid to meet itself with Rodriguez the special representative for Iraq de Tony Blair, Jeremy Greenstock. In the meeting the Spanish Socialists will try to convince the British Government of which she supports a new resolution that serves at the same time not to disappoint its voters and to convince to the United States. London would be the interlocutor suitable - and perhaps the unique one who Washington would accept.
The text of that new resolution would establish a formula according to which the Civilian administration of Iraq would be under control of United Nations. In the PSOE already possible names for the position of representative of the UN in Bagdad have been shuffled even, like the one of the Italian Emma Bonino, ex- European comisaria, that assumed a central role in the crisis of Kosovo and that would be Vista by the North Americans well. The election of an Iraqian leader appears like a more complex subject and some formulas, like Brahimi, "have discarded by the frontal opposition that would present/display the chiíes", say in the socialist Executive.
The problem arrives when consensuar the military command, where two options are opened. First, that the UN entrusted the military direction of a single country, since it did with Australia in Timor This; in this case, those would be the North Americans that became position of the operation. This option would have few possibilities of prospering since Washington would continue supporting to the weight and human cost of the same one, with the very near elections and would suppose in political terms to legitimize the present situation. Second, by that the PSOE inclines, it would try that outside NATO the one that took the weight of the operation, following the model developed in Afghanistan. What it does not seem possible is that the Atlantic Alliance directly replaced the Polish control in the sector the center-south of Iraq where they are the Spanish troops, since, as already it noticed the minister of French Defense, Aliot-Marie, in the meeting of Munich of February, is legally impossible that a mission of the Alliance is put under the military command of one of its countries members. The Afghan solution consists of two different missions: one that makes of bilateral form the United States and other than registers NATO (ISAF), but under sponsorship of the UN and with own control. But for it a local government is needed as or he exists in Kabul, or its defect that the civil provisional administration is transferred the United Nations.
Advantages for all
This option would allow to France and Germany to get up itself formally to the reconstruction of Iraq, like already it is possible in Afghanistan, and to the United States to distribute the military and human cost of the reconstruction, besides to avoid that it spreads the example and the international coalition it cracks in benefit of which they look for the instability in Iraq. As far as Zapatero, it could maintain the troops without failing to fulfill his electoral promise formally.
This one is the "quadrature of the circle iraqui '" that it tries to stage of here to the 30 of June the PSOE. He works in it to all machine, and Zapatero will have to respond to the calls of Condolezza Rice, the adviser of Security of Bush, that has tried to talk with the socialist leader from Thursday while ZP was "lost" in Lanzarote with their family fulfilling a promise to their wife. At the moment, already they have spoken, in a positive tone, Colin Powell and the future Secretary of State, Miguel Moratinos Angel.