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President Bush Challenging United Nations to Enforce Resolutions
Aired February 19, 2003 - 05:33 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now for the latest on Iraq. President Bush is again challenging the United Nations to enforce its resolutions or risk being ineffective. The president's comment comes as the U.S. and Britain prepare a new resolution authorizing force. The resolution may not be introduced until next week in order to build support in the Security Council.
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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A second resolution would be useful. We don't need a second resolution. It's clear this guy could even care less about the first resolution. He's in total defiance of 1441. But we want to work with our friends and allies to see if we can get a second resolution and that's what we're doing right now.
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COSTELLO: The Iraqi ambassador to the U.N. says his country will cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors and may destroy missiles found to be in violation of U.S. resolutions. At issue are the al-Samoud 2 missiles found by inspectors to have a range in violation of U.N. limits.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MOHAMMAD ALDOURI, IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO U.N.: We are implementing this resolution. We are cooperating with this resolution and the international community note that Iraq cooperate fully with the inspectors.
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COSTELLO: U.S. resolutions prohibit Iraqi missiles from having a range greater than 93 miles.
Well, have you heard about this, the Turkish parliament has yet to decide if the United States can place thousands of troops in Turkey for a possible attack on Iraq. In the meantime, ships carrying equipment for the 40,000 troops to be stationed in Turkey are nearing their destination.
Our Jane Arraf has more on the story from Ankara, Turkey -- Jane, will those ships be able to dock?
JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, it's definitely a cliff hanger with more twists and turns then your average soap opera. Now, that parliamentary vote you mentioned was to have taken place yesterday, but the Turkish government has decided that it doesn't quite have a deal yet. So Monday night it presented a new proposal, a counter proposal to the American government here, the American ambassador. That ambassador was here at the foreign ministry this morning, giving the U.S. answer.
Now, the answer appears to be that they're still talking. They deny it's a crisis. The Turks deny it's a crisis. But there is no move to even take that vote to parliament. Not, Turkey says that it would lose a lot if it went to war. It would lose a lot more if it allowed U.S. troops on its bases. So it's got a lot of deciding still to do before they figure out what's going to happen to those ships and those troops -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Jane, does Turkey want more money or is there another problem we're not hearing about, because we're hearing here in this country that Turkey wants the United States to give it millions and millions and millions of dollars to use Turkey as a base.
ARRAF: Well, Turkey is a bit sensitive about this. It doesn't want it to appear as if it's in a rug bargaining session. I mean the basic bottom line here, and this really is the bottom line, is this country is in a very deep economic crisis. And when you ask people what do you want, would you rather see Iraq, would you rather see the world go to war against Iraq and remove that potential threat or face the risk that this economy will suffer even more damage, people here overwhelmingly do not want to see a war. They're worried that they will get even poorer.
Now, what the United States has offered, according to Turkey, which now ranges from about $6 billion in grants and loan forgiveness and another several billion dollars in loans, just isn't enough to even make a dent. Apart from that, there are a lot of political issues -- Carol.
COSTELLO: There certainly is.
Jane Arraf reporting live from Turkey this morning.
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Aired February 19, 2003 - 05:33 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now for the latest on Iraq. President Bush is again challenging the United Nations to enforce its resolutions or risk being ineffective. The president's comment comes as the U.S. and Britain prepare a new resolution authorizing force. The resolution may not be introduced until next week in order to build support in the Security Council.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A second resolution would be useful. We don't need a second resolution. It's clear this guy could even care less about the first resolution. He's in total defiance of 1441. But we want to work with our friends and allies to see if we can get a second resolution and that's what we're doing right now.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: The Iraqi ambassador to the U.N. says his country will cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors and may destroy missiles found to be in violation of U.S. resolutions. At issue are the al-Samoud 2 missiles found by inspectors to have a range in violation of U.N. limits.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MOHAMMAD ALDOURI, IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO U.N.: We are implementing this resolution. We are cooperating with this resolution and the international community note that Iraq cooperate fully with the inspectors.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: U.S. resolutions prohibit Iraqi missiles from having a range greater than 93 miles.
Well, have you heard about this, the Turkish parliament has yet to decide if the United States can place thousands of troops in Turkey for a possible attack on Iraq. In the meantime, ships carrying equipment for the 40,000 troops to be stationed in Turkey are nearing their destination.
Our Jane Arraf has more on the story from Ankara, Turkey -- Jane, will those ships be able to dock?
JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, it's definitely a cliff hanger with more twists and turns then your average soap opera. Now, that parliamentary vote you mentioned was to have taken place yesterday, but the Turkish government has decided that it doesn't quite have a deal yet. So Monday night it presented a new proposal, a counter proposal to the American government here, the American ambassador. That ambassador was here at the foreign ministry this morning, giving the U.S. answer.
Now, the answer appears to be that they're still talking. They deny it's a crisis. The Turks deny it's a crisis. But there is no move to even take that vote to parliament. Not, Turkey says that it would lose a lot if it went to war. It would lose a lot more if it allowed U.S. troops on its bases. So it's got a lot of deciding still to do before they figure out what's going to happen to those ships and those troops -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Jane, does Turkey want more money or is there another problem we're not hearing about, because we're hearing here in this country that Turkey wants the United States to give it millions and millions and millions of dollars to use Turkey as a base.
ARRAF: Well, Turkey is a bit sensitive about this. It doesn't want it to appear as if it's in a rug bargaining session. I mean the basic bottom line here, and this really is the bottom line, is this country is in a very deep economic crisis. And when you ask people what do you want, would you rather see Iraq, would you rather see the world go to war against Iraq and remove that potential threat or face the risk that this economy will suffer even more damage, people here overwhelmingly do not want to see a war. They're worried that they will get even poorer.
Now, what the United States has offered, according to Turkey, which now ranges from about $6 billion in grants and loan forgiveness and another several billion dollars in loans, just isn't enough to even make a dent. Apart from that, there are a lot of political issues -- Carol.
COSTELLO: There certainly is.
Jane Arraf reporting live from Turkey this morning.
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