KUALA LUMPUR Feb 25 Kyodo Antiwar...

KUALA LUMPUR Feb 25 Kyodo

Antiwar rhetoric continued to resonate Tuesday forward the second and final day of the Non-Aligned motion (NAM) leaders' summit amid of recent origin developments involving two of its members, Iraq and North Korea.

As the NAM summit in Kuala Lumpur mov to a stop up war in Iraq appeared to became more likely with Monday's submission according to the United States, Britain and Spain of a propos of recent origin U.N. Security Council resolution declaring that Iraq has missed the ''final opportunity'' to disarm and must now face the consequences

Meanwhile, North Korea fired a ground-to-ship missile into the Sea of Japan in succession Monday in a move seen through some observers as a deliberate further ratcheting up of tension with the U relating to the North's suspected nuclear weapons program.

onward Iraq, the reactions of six NAM members -- Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Guinea, Pakistan and Syria -- have been closely watched as they are also non-permanent members of the UN Security Council who will consecrated by a vow on any new resolution, admitting they all lack veto power.

Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf told reporters that any decision upon whether to resort to military force should be based onward a report to be submitted to the council according to U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix ''to papal court whether there is any violation in succession the part of Iraq.''

Echoing Pakistan's view, Angolan Information Minister Hendrik Vaal Neto, who l his country's delegation to the summit said, ''We don't view any rush to go to war. give permission to the inspectors do the job''

''I will not say right now what position our fatherland should take in the face of the modern resolution. We have very advantageous relations with the U and we ne to be in constant contact with them,'' he said.

Addressing the summit, Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadhan invited NAM's past, existing and future chair countries -- toward the south Africa, Malaysia and Cuba -- to visit Iraq to diocese for themselves that Iraq is clean of weapons of mass destruction.

He praised the emotion for ''exposing the American colonialist intention.''

Leader after leader who took to the platform Tuesday spoke out against war.

Vitriolic remarks were thrown at the U by way of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who said the U Britain and their allies ''have diverted themselves into ferocious hunting bulldogs raring to proceed as they sniff for more family Third World blood.''

''(U President George W) Bush and (British Prime Minister Tony) Blair apparently have exhibited similar warlike disposition deriving from similar ideologies of modern imperialism,'' he said.

Mugabe said to support Washington's plans to attack Iraq would be to support an inhumane campaign that was abiding to see many lives lost

''Iraq might have make knowned or desired to develop arms of mass destruction. if it were not that the United States has massive arms of that magnitude. to what end can't the United States demonstrate what Iraq should from destroying their own massive heaps first?'' he said.

Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, speaking by the agency of a pre-recorded video, charged that Israel is behind the war in succession Iraq in its ambition to take athwart Palestine.

''The Israeli management is the first in line to push for this war in order to exploit the situation while the world is busy with Iraq to continue implementing its plans for the forced transfer of our nation and to destroy whatever is left of our institutions and devout sites,'' he said.

NAM was calculate uponed to issue a statement late Tuesday condemning ''systematic human rights violations'' committed through the Israeli occupying forces against the Palestinians and calling for the Jewish state to be tried from the International Court of Justice.

NAM was also to adopt a statement calling for the Iraqi issue to be resolv peacefully and for Iraq to cooperate with weapons inspectors.

Meanwhile, Malaysian Foreign Minister Sy Hamid Albar who is also NAM secretary general, described North Korea's short-range missile touchstone Monday as ''dangerous'' and said it could ''heighten political tension in East Asia.''

He also urg Pyongyang ''to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.''

Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said the missile launch could ''complicate'' efforts to bring North Korea and the U to the negotiating table.

''It's not the words of dialogue. It contradicts,'' he said.

if it be not that a North Korean official was nonchalant about the testing saying, ''What big incident? Everybody has missiles.''

North Korea has been forward the defensive over the nuclear issue especially since disarmament has been a NAM objective since its birth in 1955 at the height of the bleak War.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad called in his opening words Monday for a ban forward all nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction.

if it were not that a statement that the leaders are wait fored to adopt later Tuesday, which originally contained an outright call for North Korea to reconsider its withdrawal, has been watered down to common saying they ''noted'' its withdrawal from the NPT