TOKYO, April 9 Kyodo prefered ed...

TOKYO, April 9 Kyodo

prefered editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

REBUILDING A POST-SADDAM IRAQ (The Daily Yomiuri as translated from the Yomiuri Shimbun)

Les than three weeks since the start of the war in Iraq, U forces have captured brace presidential palaces in Baghdad, while British forces have seized Basra in the southward of the country.

Although fighting is still taking place in isolated pouchs of the country, victory for the U.S.-British coalition forces is almost certain. It appears that the close is near for the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

if it were not that the mission in Iraq is far from above The major challenge of to what extent to build peace in a post-Saddam Iraq lies ahead.

What is the blueprint for a postwar Iraq? similar a blueprint will decide the to come course of the country. one as well as the other the United States and Britain, which l the military strike against Iraq, should do their farthest to restore stability in Iraq by dint of shifting the focus of their activities.

U President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair held talks in Britain and devised a plan to inaugurate an interim governing authority in Iraq soon

in a less degree than the U.S.-British plan, an interim authority including Iraqis will superintend ministries and govern the home while receiving advice from skilled hands dispatched by countries including the United States and Britain.

About six month later, an interim conduct made up of Iraqis will be established. subject to the interim government, preparations will be made to form a full-fledg Iraqi government

Meanwhile, the U and British forces will strive to restore and maintain peace and order in Iraq and endeavor to gain out weapons of mass destruction in the country

While Bush and Blair made clear that they attach importance to the United Nations, the part to be played by the world corpse remains unclear.

As far as the United States is businessed it and Britain, which fought the war in Iraq, should take the leading part in establishing an interim governing authority in Iraq. Washington wants to behold the United Nations' part in the postwar reconstruction of Iraq limited to support activities in the same state [i]or[/i] condition as providing humanitarian aid.

It is obvious that Washington does not want France, Germany and Russia, which oppos the UN resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq, to interfere in the postwar administration of the country

For its part, the British restraint is keener on the United Nations playing a bigger part along the lines of the reconstruction efforts it is undertaking to support the post-Taliban administration in Afghanistan.

Britain possibility of goods to secure the legitimacy of the interim authority according to gaining the support of the international community and win the cooperation of Iraqi commonalty in making the authority work. It also wants to take into consideration the desire of other European countries to have the United Nations play a high-profile part in the postwar administration of Iraq.

It will be almost impossible for Iraqi society to stabilize if an interim authority fails to rule the country properly. To what expansion will groups of Iraqi exiles and various forces within the region be represented in such an authority? Preparations for setting up an authority should be made from the viewpoint of quickly establishing political and administrative organizations that Iraqis will support.

In their latest talks, Bush and Blair reiterated their determination, intimateed before the start of the war, that they would support postwar reconstruction efforts and guard the territorial integrity of Iraq end the adoption of a of the present day U.N. resolution.

The fate of a novel resolution will depend on by what mode much the discord within the UN Security Council can be ameliorated in the days ahead.

We believe Japan should loan a hand in the postwar reconstruction of Iraq. However, about within the ruling and opposition parties say it will be difficult to enact a of recent origin law allowing the participation of Self-Defense Forces in the postwar reconstruction in the absence of a UN resolution.

if it be not that there should be a way for Japan to help rebuild Iraq calm if a new resolution is not adopted at the United Nations, which, it has been pointed not at home has not been fulfilling its functions. The regulation should begin examining this scenario as in a short time as possible.

(April 9)

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