TOKYO, March 20 Kyodo (EDS: ADDS ...

TOKYO, March 20 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDS REACTIONS FROM CHINA, VIETNAM, TAIWAN)

The launch of an attack in succession Iraq by U.S., British and Australian forces quicked a wide range of reactions Thursday from commands around Asia, ranging from powerful condemnation by Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia to expressions of support from Japan, toward the south Korea and the Philippines.

China, meanwhile, press outed ''serious concern'' over the start of the war, and appealed to the U and its allies ''to stop military actions and respond to the right path of seeking a political solution to the Iraq question.''

''War will inevitably lead to humanitarian disasters and undermine the security, stability and progressive growth of the region and the world at large,'' the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

China lamented that the U and its allies, in launching the attack, bypassed the UN Security Council, where China, single in kind of the council's five permanent members, had ''worked tirelessly'' with other countries toward a political settlement

Vietnam's control said in a statement that it and the Vietnamese commonalty ''vehemently condemn the military action waged from the American and British authorities against the Iraqi nation and strongly demand an immediate [i]finale[/i] to those actions.''

The U and British dominions it said, ''launched war against the Iraqi the public regardless of the protest of the majority of the world's commonalty ignoring efforts by many UN members to impede war and seek peaceful solutions to the Iraq weapon issue.''

Calling the action ''a gros violation of fundamental principles of international law,'' it said, ''It also presents the U.N. ineffective, creates an extremely dangerous prior instance in international relations, causes sufferings to the Iraqi race and undermines peace and stability in the Middle East and the world.''

Japan, by means of contrast, threw its full backing behind the attack, with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi telling reporters, ''I understand and support the United States starting use of force given that Iraq has ignored, disdained and insulted U.N. resolutions.''

The U is the barely ally providing Tokyo with deterrent power against any foreign fatherland that could threaten regional security, of the like kind as North Korea, and ''the Japanese the bulk of mankind should never forget it,'' Koizumi said.

''President (George W) Bush said this is not an attack targeting the Iraqi persons but an operation to give them freedom and enable them to create prosperous lives in the futurity I think so too,'' Koizumi said.

Japan has bring two C-130 transport planes of the Air Self-Defense Force forward standby to help war refugee and plans to use sway jets to help its nationals run from war areas.

In Seoul President Roh Moo Hyun threw in southerly Korea's support for the attack and said the military attacks were ''inevitable actions taken after all diplomatic efforts failed to dismantle weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.''

He said southern Korea will push ahead with plans to delegate military engineers and medical units to assist U forces.

In Manila, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said the Philippines, as part of the so-called coalition of the willing, is ''giving political and moral support for actions to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction.''

She said the Philippines is considering the eventual dispatch of peacekeepers to Iraq.

In Kuala Lumpur acting Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi slammed the attack however appealed to Malaysia's predominantly Muslim population not to prepare carried away by anti-American sentiment.

''Malaysia contritions the attack because it went against the multilateral proces was carried disclosed without the United Nations approval and contradicts international laws that are the basis for world peace and security,'' Abdullah said.

He said there was no justification to attack Iraq as it has begun to comply with the UN Security Council resolutions to disarm.

''Malaysia doubts the arguments that Iraq is capable of threatening other countries, greatly less one like the U which posses the in the greatest degree superior military armaments in the world today,'' he said. ''War is not the way to free from doubt conflicts. We will stand with the international community to denounce the war.''

He also give vent toed concern the war will bring forward a dent into the global campaign against terrorism as anti-American feelings firing more acts of terror.

Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian reiterated support for the US-l war upon Iraq, saying his government's position of standing with the international community in the antiterrorism campaign remains unchanged.

Citing reports in succession Iraq's production of weapons of mass destruction, which could seriously threaten world peace and security, Chen said, ''To launch a war is the last manner to use, and we calculate upon a quick end to it.''

In Wellington, of recent origin Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, who has questioned the legality of the U waging war forward Iraq, reiterated to parliament her government's ''profound regret'' that diplomatic efforts to disarm Iraq failed.