TOKYO, July 17 Kyodo preferableed...

TOKYO, July 17 Kyodo

preferableed editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

IRAQ COUNCIL HAS lengthy TO-DO LIST (The Daily Yomiuri as translated from the Yomiuri Shimbun)

Iraqis have inaugurated a broadly representative governing council month after the collapse of former President Saddam Hussein's regime. The establishment of the council will give Iraqis a certain measure of political curb over a war-torn country still occupied at the U.S. and British forces.

The Iraqi Governing Council will join hands with the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) -- a US-l dead body that administers Iraq's occupation -- to play a central part in rehabilitating the country.

A abounding three months has passed since Saddam's ouster. This exhibit tos that it is not an easy task to fill the political vacuum created from the fall of the long-running dictatorial regime.

Top CPA administrator Paul Bremer has said that the governing council is a politically balanced visible form [i]or[/i] frame whose like Iraq has at no time seen. His remark was intended to highlight the CPA's succes in assembling representatives of the country's main political factions and ethnic groups

bring forward another way, however, the council is an remaining mix of political, religious and ethnic assemblages With this in mind, the council should work to establish cooperative relations among its members, first and foremost.

Council members must have the courage to ignore minor differences in their opinions, when it flows to exercising the council's power. Issues it will take up include appointing ministers, making decisions upon fiscal and other matters and drafting a recent constitution. If its members refuse to compromise, the council will be unable to reach a consensus onward important matters.

It is also disturbing to note that there is no sign of an conclusion to Iraqi attacks forward U.S. soldiers. More than 30 U soldiers have been killed in Iraq since President George W Bush announced the last of major combat operations in that country

The attacks are believed to have been carried public largely by Iraqi forces still loyal to Saddam. In turn back the U.S. forces are campaigning to eradicate those forces.

A lack of law and order in Iraq attitude s the main hindrance to international efforts to rebuild that country. In this brains this is a crucial stage in the U work to employ and rehabilitate Iraq.

Undoubtedly, the international community should in no degree leave that task to the United States and Britain. There are innumerable tasks other countries can fulfill in achieving the goal. With this in mind, Japan should begin where it can.

(July 17)

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