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UN votes to lift Iraq sanctions

AFP, United Nations
After weeks of internal wrangling, the United Nations Thursday overwhelmingly voted to lift crippling sanctions imposed on Iraq in 1990 and give the UN a key role in rebuilding the devastated country.
The Security Council voted 14-0 to lift the 13-year-old UN sanctions immediately, adopting Resolution 1483, the fourth draft of a US bid to end the sanctions regime which has brought the Iraqi economy to its knees.
But as a damaging transatlantic rift over the future governance of Iraq showed signs of being on the
mend, the fatal shooting by US troops of two Iraqis at a checkpoint outside Baghdad highlighted the dangers on the ground.
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin had announced earlier that holdouts France, Germany and Russia would finally back the new resolution at the UN Security Council meeting in New York. Syria boycotted the vote.
Under the resolution, Iraq's oil revenues will be put into a new development fund to be held by the central bank and spent on recon FROM PAGE 12
struction and humanitarian needs at the direction of the occupying powers.
The resolution also calls on the US and British forces to help set up an interim Iraqi-run administration until "an internationally recognised, representative government is established by the people of Iraq."
"We have decided to vote for this resolution and to work to find a consensus within the Security Council," de Villepin said. "Even if this text is not perfect, it takes into account our concerns."
In a further sign that the traditional allies want to heal the rifts left by the war on Iraq, US Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Paris for a two-day meeting of G8 foreign ministers.
Powell said France's change of heart on the UN resolution was a good move towards mending US-French relations, badly bruised by the Iraq war.
"I think it's a step in the right direction of moving forward together," Powell told a briefing organised by the French-American Press Club.
France, Germany and Russia had strongly opposed the US-led war and then insisted the United Nations play a "central role" in its rebuilding.
De Villepin on Thursday hailed the fourth draft of the resolution as signalling the return of the world body after fears that it would be sidelined and rendered irrelevant by Washington's unilateral action in launching the war.
"We can consider that the UN is back, and at bottom that is now the key issue: to make sure that the UN can resume its place" in handling the crisis, he told France-Inter radio.