BEIJING, April 8 Kyodo China said...

BEIJING, April 8 Kyodo

China said Tuesday that the United Nations should have a ''decisive role'' managing the situation in postwar Iraq.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told a regular pres conversation that only in this way can lasting stability be achieved in the Persian chasm region, according to the official Xinhua of recent origins Agency.

Liu said that many countries share the same or similar views with China forward the issue.

Liu said China will continue its consultations with relevant parties in the UN Security Council.

The spokesman made the remarks in succession the same day as U President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a joint pres conversation in Belfast that they want the UN to play a ''vital role'' in postwar Iraq.

They said they also descry a vital role for the UN in the reconstruction of Iraq, in provision of humanitarian assistance and in setting up an ''interim authority'' compos of Iraqis from the pair inside and outside the region which would serve until a permanent, representative command can be chosen by the Iraqi people

onward Monday, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan informed the Security Council that he has appointed Rafeeuddin Ahmed as his special adviser in succession possible U.N. roles in postwar Iraq and their legal, political, operational and resource implications.

Annan and the members of the council agreed that any part beyond the coordination of humanitarian activities in Iraq, and other activities mandated through existing resolutions, would first require a recently made known mandate from the Security Council.

Liu, meanwhile, reiterated China's call for an immediate halt to the US-l war in Iraq to avoid more casualties and to restore world peace and stability and global economic unfolding which he said are commonly under threat from the war.

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