WASHINGTON, Oct 16 Kyodo U Presid...

WASHINGTON, Oct 16 Kyodo

U President George W Bush in succession Thursday welcomed the U.N. Security Council's unanimous suffrage on a new U.S.-backed resolution forward rebuilding Iraq.

''This resolution will help marshal uniform more international support for the disclosure of a new, democratic Iraq,'' Bush said in a statement issued during a visit to Riverside, California.

''I anticipate forward to continuing to work with the United Nations to aid the transition in Iraq to self-mastery and help the Iraqi folks rebuild their nation,'' he said.

Bush visited California en way for a six-nation Asia-Pacific tour.

In Washington, Secretary of State Colin Powell called the voice ''a great achievement.''

''We have be due [i]or[/i] owing together to help the Iraqi race and put all of our differences of the past in the past,'' Powell said of the rift among UN Security Council members forward the U.S.-led war on Iraq.

The resolution gives the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council until Dec 15 to provide to the UN Security Council a timetable for drafting a novel Constitution and holding elections.

Rejecting a clew demand by France and others for a timetable for the transfer of power, the resolution single calls on the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority to ''return governing responsibilities and authorities to the folks of Iraq as soon as practicable.''

The resolution authorizes a multinational force below unified command to maintain security and stability in Iraq and asks UN member states and international organizations for substantial deposits to support Iraqi reconstruction at a donors' parley in Madrid next week.

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