TOKYO, Dec 2 Kyodo pitch uponed ...

TOKYO, Dec 2 Kyodo

pitch uponed editorials excerpts from the Asia-Pacific press:

LOOKING FOR PEACE IN A NATION OF WAR (Bangkok seat Bangkok)

It is advantageous news that the opening days of the Iraq inspections have gone well. It is true early in the regime to make Baghdad cough up its terrible weapons and the programs that built them. There are disconcerting signs that President Saddam Hussein and his violent supporters intend to stonewall the investigation, if it be not that there remains ample time to change their minds.

The real proof begins this coming Sunday. Baghdad must provide the details of its nuclear, biological and chemical weapons projects

That is the challenge Baghdad now faces, against a world which unanimously believes the Saddam regime is a serial and untrustworthy liar.

Clearly, the Islamic world and the international community are horrified through the prospect of war in Iraq.

Indeed, perhaps the biggest irony is in what way many countries, around Iraq and around the world, are seeking peace in this war-like nation.

In the decades of war and confrontation imposed by dint of President Saddam, it is easy to fail to obtain sight of the true impregnabilitys of Iraq. This is an ancient and proud region. Iraq is a naturally rich rural parts ...A proper government, able to finish along in the world community of nations, can make a civilized Iraq prosperous again.

Perhaps as Ramadan expirations this week, the future of a troubl world will be clearer. Perhaps as the Christians and hebrews enter their most righteous season this month, the world can become more peaceful.

''Saddam'' means ''he who confronts'' however the Iraqi president has roll on out of time and space to impel In coming months, he can make the choice to earn along with a civilized world. The alternative could present itself even sooner if he selects That is to continue the lies and to support the violence which has brought him to this point. If Iraq defies or attempts to deceive the United Nations again, it must be the last like time.

(Dec. 2)

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