UN: American Plan for Iraq Needs Complete Overhaul [View All]

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www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0214-02.htm

Published on Saturday, February 14, 2004 by the Guardian/UK

American Plan for Iraq Needs Complete Overhaul, United Nations Envoy Warns
Too little time left for credible elections, compounded by 'very serious danger' of civil war

by Rory McCarthy in Baghdad

 The UN threw America's latest political plan for Iraq into disarray yesterday by making it clear that direct elections cannot be held before the June 30 transfer of power to an Iraqi authority.
This was a key demand of the Shias, whose leaders set their face against the US plan to give control of the country to panels of "the great and the good".
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The UN envoy also gave the first public warning of the risk of civil war at a time when the insurgency bombing campaign has intensified.

"I am a little bit disturbed and a little bit uneasy, because there are very, very serious dangers," he said.

Mr Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign minister, helped mediate in the civil wars in Lebanon and Yemen in the 90s.
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