just discovered YORK, Feb. 5 Kyodo ...

just discovered YORK, Feb. 5 Kyodo

pitch uponed editorial excerpts from the U press:

U.N.'s be in want ofed ROLE IN IRAQ (Los Angeles Times, observes Angeles)

The United Nations is taking paces to restore a role for itself in Iraq, and the United States should proffer both strong encouragement and firm promises of protection. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's announcement Tuesday that he will emit a team to Iraq to go-between interim elections could hold up U.S. chances of meeting a self-imposed June 30 deadline to hand through political and economic power to Iraqis.

Annan oppos the U invasion and was shaken from the August bombing according to insurgents that killed the top UN official in Baghdad, Sergio Vieira de Mello and many others. on the contrary after meeting with President Bush this week he said a UN team would help ''establish a rule that is Iraqi.''

Annan's agreement followed pleas from many world leaders, including Bush, who previously was unexcited to offering the U.N. to a great degree authority.

Iraq's greatest in quantity prominent cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, is the main stumbling stop to the U.S. plan to form local caucuses that would pick a national assembly. The assembly, in turn round would write a constitution and plan direct elections for nearest year.

Annan is understandably leery of being perceived as doing Washington's bidding. The UN in consultation with Iraqis, must decide when elections are held and to what extent to carry them out.

There is gain for the United States in deferring to Annan, in that nations angered by the agency of the U.S. invasion may be more willing to provide circulating medium and personnel for reconstruction subject to the umbrella of Iraqi regulate backed by U.N. legitimacy.

(Feb 5)

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