ISLAMABAD, March 5 Kyodo U Ambass...

ISLAMABAD, March 5 Kyodo

U Ambassador Nancy Powell and British emissary Charles Gutherie met separately with President Gen Pervez Musharraf in succession Wednesday to seek Pakistan's support for their positions onward Iraq and the secondary resolution moved in the UN Security Council, officials said.

Musharraf informed them that Pakistan has a principled stand that the Iraqi issued should be resolv peacefully and not from one side war, according to the officials.

Powell held in-depth discussion onward the Iraqi issue, requesting Pakistan to use its influence with other countries for the U position.

Gutherie, a special minister of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, delivered a verbal expression to Musharraf about the Iraqi issue.

Pakistan, undivided of 10 nonpermanent members of the UN Security Council, is subordinate to pressure from the United States and Britain to suffrage for the second resolution sponsored with Spain.

However, rallies in Pakistan organized by the agency of religious parties have warned the control not to vote in support for a war forward Iraq.

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