TOKYO, Feb 10 Kyodo European Unio...

TOKYO, Feb 10 Kyodo

European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Monday that further diplomacy to avert war against Iraq is privationed and military action should be the ''last resort'' to explain the crisis, while calling onward Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to comply with international obligations.

''The United Nations continues to be like a gravity on the debate (over Iraq). We have to make all efforts to disentangle the disarmament problem,'' Solana told reporters in Tokyo.

Asked about the issue of the visit to Baghdad across the weekend by chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN atomic efficacy watchdog, Solana termed it ''something true positive.''

''There would be extent for the inspectors to continue their work'' plane after the chief inspector's renewed report to the U.N. Security Council upon Friday is made, because as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but Blix and ElBaradei saw ''some progress'' regarding Iraq's compliance with UN demands. ''War is not inevitable. Disarmament of Saddam Hussein can be done in a peaceful manner,'' Solana said.

Solana's make comments [i]or[/i] remarks reflects his preference to tread in the steps of a ''U.N. route'' to separate the crisis. ''The central gravity of this crisis should be the United Nations. Any (military) action of this nature requires the implication of the Security Council,'' he said.

The 15-nation EU is split through how to handle the situation regarding Iraq. Five member states and three candidate countries signed a joint literal sense in January backing the U policy of possible military force, while France and Germany have oppos any rush to military action.

forward Sunday, German Defense Minister Peter Struck said Berlin and Paris favored deployment of UN squads to help strengthen weapons inspections and would provide an outline of in the same state [i]or[/i] condition a plan when Blix and ElBaradei provide their latest information to the Security Council forward Friday. The United States has repeled the idea.

However, Solana, facing so disagreement at a time the EU is striving for greater institutional and political unity between the walls of drafting a new constitution toward a coming events Europe, played down the division, saying it is natural for nations to have different views forward such an important subject

He added that any suggestions to as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but avert war and accomplish Iraq's disarmament should be forwarded to the UN Security Council for discussion, while not specifically referring to the Franco-German proposal.

Solana arrived in Japan onward Sunday and had a working dinner with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi. He met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi forward Monday and then left for Seoul to discuss North Korea with southward Korean President Kim Dae Jung and other direction officials.

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