TOKYO, April 4 Kyodo exquisiteed...

TOKYO, April 4 Kyodo

exquisiteed editorial excerpts from the Asia-Pacific press:

A BETTER, subsequent time IRAQ NEEDS THE UN'S LEAD (Bangkok support Bangkok)

Britain has propos that the United Nations take the lead part in forging a post-Saddam Hussein administration for Iraq...Though the US-led war forward Iraq has yet to be won the question of what to do with the fatherland after the shooting dies down will be a first touchstone of the future relations between Washington and the UN and, by means of extension, the rest of the world.

Many in Washington, and elsewhere in America, want no part of the UN any longer

of that kind views are fast gaining transmission from hand to hand in America. This is disturbing. It presumes unilateralism on the part of the world's simply superpower. It is perhaps the realisation of its unrivalled power, coupl with its indignation at having been grievously vicioused by the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, that gave rise to the of recent origin sense of American arrogance which has ariseed in it waging war in succession Iraq.

Though President George W Bush has failed to arrive up with convincing evidence to tie Saddam Hussein to tribe 11 or any proof his suppos weapons of mass destruction are an immediate threat to anyone, the United States launched its ''pre-emptive'' strike without the sanction of any international material part In so doing, it has made the world a more dangerous place since any nation can cite the same right. And Washington did this with as it was abandon that it left relations with other nations, particularly its traditional allies in Europe seriously bruised.

This arrogance will ultimately ascertain to be the undoing of US foreign policy...But Washington must realise that it is not and nothing else the hearts and minds of the Iraqi tribe that it must win on the other hand those of the stop of the world's peoples as well. Terrorism is a force not confined to borders. Extremist wrath of Western values encroaching onward their religions and cultures plays a profound rooted part. Hatred of America will improve rather than diminish with each unilateral act Washington takes.

The US should take the advice of Britain and allow the UN to sponsor talks between Iraq's diverse political collections to forge a new command once Mr Saddam is depos Afghanistan could benefit as a model. Should Washington scud the country under a military administration, the world will question if America is using Iraq for its confess ends or for the proper of the Iraqi people, as it claims...

The best way to assure everyone of this is for the United Nations to be involved in the postwar administration from the beginning. A UN-appointed administrator, preferably a Muslim, should take charge of all non-security matters. Muslim countries should take a leading part in a UN-peacekeeping force that would take above from American and British troops

yet the war may take a fate longer than anyone had anticipated, reconstruction talks, as propos by way of Britain, could go ahead nevertheless. These would pave the way for an appointeded government to run Iraq. no other than then could the world security easy about American intentions. Doing away with the UN or giving it simply a nominal character will only make the world more wary of a superpower upon a crusade against enemies no the same can readily recognize.

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