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| Southeast Asia |
| Indonesia officially backs Franco-German plan for Iraq |
| 2003-02-15 |
| Jakarta Post The Indonesian government and civil society leaders closed ranks with peace backers France, Germany, and Russia over demands to resolve the Iraq crisis through diplomatic means, sending yet another message to the United States to drop its war plans. In a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday, the government said it "fully shares and supports the idea of strengthening the UN inspection team as suggested in the new initiative". "And there are no terrorists in Indonesia, either. Don't forget that..." France, Germany and Russia suggested bringing in more weapons inspectors and equipment into Iraq to make sure it met resolution 1441 on the disarmament of its weapons of mass destruction. Foreign affairs spokesman Marty M. Natalegawa said the measure "would send a powerful signal of the international community's common sense of purpose in urgently addressing the question of Iraq in an effective yet peaceful way." "Just as it has for the past 10 years..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 "Same as it ever was..." Adding more inspectors could work, if we got the entire populations of China and India trained and sent to scour Iraq inch by inch. Or if Iraq really wanted to rid itself of WMD's. Care to give odds on either happening? Didn't think so. |
| Posted by: Kathy K 2003-02-15 21:15:15 |