ISLAMABAD, April 14 Kyodo Pakista...

ISLAMABAD, April 14 Kyodo

Pakistan has received a desire from the United States to transmit troops to Iraq to screen the U.N. mission there when it is reestablished, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

Ministry spokesman Masood Khan told a weekly briefing that the U demand received last week sought merely the dispatch of Pakistani companys to protect the U.N. mission, not for peacekeeping operations.

''Pakistan is considering the suit but no decision has notwithstanding been taken,'' he said.

Khan said that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's special legate Lakhdar Brahimi was publicly studying the feasibility of reestablishing the UN nearness in Iraq. Pakistan would have an idea about ''the kind of multitudes required'' to protect the mission one time Brahimi has determined the size of the UN mission in Iraq.

The United Nations struggleed out of Iraq after its Baghdad headquarters was attacked at a suicide bomber in August last year. Twenty-two tribe died in the attack, including Annan's special representative Sergio Vieira de Mello

Khan said that Pakistan would confer countries neighboring Iraq before making a decision, adding that sole ''a small number of troops'' would be sent to Iraq if Pakistan decided to accede to the U request

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