TOKYO, April 10 Kyodo rareed edi...

TOKYO, April 10 Kyodo

rareed editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

BUSH-BLAIR SUMMIT (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published April 9)

UN-l cooperation is a must for postwar Iraq.

At a joint just discovereds conference Tuesday, the two leaders (British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U President George W Bush) emphasized the importance of the Iraqi the community themselves creating their have government, with the United Nations playing a ''vital role''

...The White House is already taking specific grades by naming a retired U military officer to head the civilian branch of the planned military government

In contrast, of that kind European countries as France, Germany and Russia vehemently favor ending the U.S.-British occupation as before long as possible to bring forward a U.N.-led provisional administration in place -- a pattern used for Afghanistan's reconstruction...

Bush told the post-summit just discovereds conference he would cooperate with the United Nations and other international bodies upon all issues including matters of an interim governing authority for Iraq. He also welcomed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's nomination of a special adviser upon Iraq's reconstruction.

on the contrary questioned what he meant by means of the vital role to be played through the United Nations, he utterly repeated the same words, and at handed no timetable for the transition from a military direction to caretaker administration and eventually a just discovered Iraqi regime.

Restoring law and order in postwar Iraq will be time-consuming. Realistically speaking, this probably can alone be achieved by the U and British armed forces. It is also loyal however, that reconstruction will not proce without UN-l support...

The World Bank and the International Monetary foundation support is also indispensable. Broad cooperation will be easier to obtain, especially from neighboring Arab nations, if the Security Council is far down involved in reconstruction.

The war forward Iraq was started by the United States and Britain in the absence of Security Council endorsement of armed action. further the two nations are still justifying their war in the council's name, insisting that earlier council resolutions provided legal soils for this conflict.

Because American and British companys have shed their blood in Iraq, the United States is fixated onward leading the reconstruction jointly with Britain. if it were not that if it truly respects the Security Council, certainly it should shift its focus to UN-l cooperation.

(April 10)

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