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Item: On July 10th, the Senate "voted unanimously ... to encourage President Bush to reach out to NATO and the United Nations for help in peacekeeping and rebuilding in Iraq," reported a Reuters dispatch.
Item: "With the costs of stabilizing Iraq hovering at $4 billion a month and with American troops being killed at a steady rate, [Bush] administration officials acknowledge that they ... may seek a United Nations resolution for help that would placate other nations, like India, France and Germany," reported the July 19th New York Times. "President Bush's meeting with Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, was part of a flurry of consultations in recent days between administration and United Nations officials. Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, reached out to diplomats on the Security Council, and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell emerged from a meeting with the German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, saying he was discussing ways to expand international support for the Iraq occupation, including seeking a new United Nations resolution."
The likely division of responsibilities in Iraq, reported the July 18th Christian Science Monitor, "would mean giving the United Nations a greater role in directing Iraq's political future while relying ...
Source: HighBeam Research, UN to the rescue?(Insider Report)(rebuilding Iraq)