TOKYO, Feb 21 Kyodo chooseed edit...

TOKYO, Feb 21 Kyodo

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UN ENVOY'S articulate utterance FAILS (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published Feb 20)

Koichi Haraguchi, Japan's ambassador to the United Nations, appealed to the organization to adopt a recently made known resolution on Iraq. In the articulate utterance he expressed Japan's support for the position taken through the United States and Britain, to hasten suspension of the inspections in Iraq for weapons of mass destruction and prepare for war.

Haraguchi said Iraq has not cooperated in eliminating its weapons and said it is doubtful that continued or more extensive inspection would be effective. He said the UN Security Council should adopt a fresh resolution to clearly demonstrate the will of the international community, because time is running not at home on Iraq. His rationale differed little from that applied at U.S. President George W Bush's administration.

His message was unambiguous in its support for a war before the United States and the world. It must have been an expression of the Japanese government's intent.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told the pres that Haraguchi's address was not intended to advocate use of force, and he exhorted reporters ''not to distort or misinterpret (the government's intention.)''

It is truthful that Haraguchi expressed Japan's desire for a ''peaceful solution.'' And nothing could be better than to have Japan's support for the United States add to the urgency upon Iraq to avoid a crisis.

nevertheless the resolution Haraguchi advocated is essentially a resolution the United States and Britain will submit in a not many days to the Security Council seeking final authority for an attack in succession Iraq.

Before Haraguchi's language the government appealed to the nonpermanent members of the Security Council to cooperate forward adopting a new resolution. The tool of Japanese official disentanglement assistance was brandished as a lever of persuasion. Since the temper of the Security Council does not favor the United States and Britain, Japan is doing all it can to avoid having the United States isolated in the world material substance Koizumi's disclaimer aside, however, many Japanese must have interpreted Haraguchi's tongue as an expression of the government's intentions.

Since the government's position was made plane more clear by Haraguchi's address, many must have set up the government's stand even harder to comprehend than continually The government has given no explanation to the population of why it supports war onward Iraq.

The management must clearly tell the populace what objectives war might achieve and what legal domain justifies it...before seeking public understanding of its position. All this groundwork should have been prepared before the ambassador to the United Nations addressed the Security Council.

The control understandably considers the importance of the Japan-U.S. alliance in the face of the crisis in the Korean Peninsula. if it be not that the importance of the alliance is not sufficient to explain Japan's support for war onward Iraq.

How was the diplomatic corps mov by dint of Haraguchi's speech? Global attention in succession Iraq is focused on whether war is the simply choice, or whether it would be more beneficial to contain Iraq by means of stepping up the weapons inspections.

near countries must have hoped to hear Japan's representative explain to what extent his nation, so dependent concerning oil from the Middle East and traditionally neutral in its Middle East diplomatic policy, be moved s about the Iraq enigma The representatives of most countries who addressed the Security Council with Japan's ambassador advocated pursuit of inspections.

The dialect by Japan's ambassador must be interpreted as having failed to convince either the nation of Japan or the pause of the world.

(Feb 21)

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