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US sails easy at UN voting on Iraq resolution

AFP, United Nations
The United States got unanimous support of the UN Security Council yesterday, after Syria joined France, Germany and Russia in backing a new resolution on Iraq's future.
The United States carried the day with a 15-0 vote, in a key diplomatic victory just days after Washington said it might abandon hope of getting the council to back the plan.
Syria, the only Arab nation on the council and a critic of US policy in Iraq, decided to back the measure
just hours after the European holdouts -- all of which opposed the war on Iraq -- said they would give their support.
"Clearly the goal is not a piece of paper in New York," said a US official who asked not to be named.
"What we hope it will accomplish is additional troops, additional money, greater assistance for the people of Iraq and unity on the council."
With victory already assured Wednesday, when diplomats said
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the United States already had the minimum nine votes needed, Washington agreed to postpone the vote in a final bid to muster maximum support.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Jaqcues Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder then held lastminute consultations earlier in the day, paving the way for the trio to give their approval to the measure.
"We took note that the resolution is really an important step in the right direction," Schroeder said. "We have an interest that in a difficult international situation the UN stays together as far as possible."
The council was bitterly divided over the Iraq war and diplomats said they wanted a consensus to avoid weakening the United Nations, which UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said last month risked losing its authority if the splits could not be healed.
The resolution authorises a multinational force in Iraq that could provide the international cover needed for wary nations such as Pakistan, a non-permanent member, to provide troops and cash to help stabilise the country.
Washington is not expecting much help with soldiers but does want generous pledges of money for rebuilding Iraq at an international donors' conference scheduled to start next week in Spain.
The resolution gives the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council until December 15 to set a timetable for carrying out the next steps, rather than giving Iraqis sovereignty first, which the European trio had initially insisted on.