3.4 |
Development of UK strategy and options, late July to 14 September
2002
597.
Statements
made by China, France and Russia in the General
Assembly
debate
after President Bush’s speech highlighted the different positions
of the
five
Permanent Members of the Security Council, in particular about the
role of the
Council in
deciding whether military action was justified. The UK also
recognised
the danger
that the US might seek to set the bar for Iraq so high that a
new
resolution
might not be agreed by the Security Council.
598.
Those
tensions meant the negotiation of resolution 1441 was complex
and
difficult.
That is addressed in Section 3.5.
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