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Powell on PR Mission to Get Word Out on New Proposed U.N. Resolution
Aired February 24, 2003 - 05:35 ET
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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is on a PR mission to get the word out on the new proposed U.N. resolution on Iraq. The resolution could be unveiled as early as today at the U.N. and Powell is talking it up in China, where, which is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council. The resolution could authorize the use of force to disarm Iraq. Powell says the threat may get Iraq to disarm.
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COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE: Let's also not lose sight of the fact that the only reason Iraq has done anything, anything in the last four to six months is because of the threat of force and because of the unity of the international community. And this is not the time to step away from this responsibility. This is the time to disarm Iraq, one way or the other.
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WHITFIELD: Our State Department producer Elise Labott will join us in about 30 minutes for a wake up call to talk more about this developing story.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military is stepping up its cyber warfare tactics. It has sent more e-mails to Iraq's political, military and economic leaders urging them to defy Saddam Hussein. And yesterday, coalition aircraft dropped 180,000 leaflets over southern Iraq. The leaflets tell Iraqis to tune their radios into a frequency for information from coalition forces.
Let's return now to Baghdad for reaction from there.
Our Rym Brahimi is in the Iraqi capital -- Rym.
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Fredricka, on the aspect of the U.N. resolution, well, Iraq has been saying through Iraqi officials and through the state run media that it believes there is no need for a new United Nations resolution, the argument here being that Resolution 1441 that Iraq accepted to comply with back in November is being implemented and any new resolutions, say some of the editorials in today's newspapers, would actually be a pretext or provide a pretext for the United States to attack Iraq.
Now, with regard to the al-Samoud 2 missile that was found by a panel of experts at the United Nations to go beyond its authorized range of 93 miles, well, the director of the National Monitoring Directorate here spoke to reporters. He says Iraq is taking a request to destroy those missiles into deep consideration. But he also says that he would like Iraq and the United Nations to talk about this. He says technical talks could help solve this matter if there is no interference, as he puts it, by the U.S. and Britain on that issue -- Fredricka.
WHITFIELD: All right, Rym, thank you very much.
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Resolution>
Aired February 24, 2003 - 05:35 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is on a PR mission to get the word out on the new proposed U.N. resolution on Iraq. The resolution could be unveiled as early as today at the U.N. and Powell is talking it up in China, where, which is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council. The resolution could authorize the use of force to disarm Iraq. Powell says the threat may get Iraq to disarm.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE: Let's also not lose sight of the fact that the only reason Iraq has done anything, anything in the last four to six months is because of the threat of force and because of the unity of the international community. And this is not the time to step away from this responsibility. This is the time to disarm Iraq, one way or the other.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WHITFIELD: Our State Department producer Elise Labott will join us in about 30 minutes for a wake up call to talk more about this developing story.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military is stepping up its cyber warfare tactics. It has sent more e-mails to Iraq's political, military and economic leaders urging them to defy Saddam Hussein. And yesterday, coalition aircraft dropped 180,000 leaflets over southern Iraq. The leaflets tell Iraqis to tune their radios into a frequency for information from coalition forces.
Let's return now to Baghdad for reaction from there.
Our Rym Brahimi is in the Iraqi capital -- Rym.
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Fredricka, on the aspect of the U.N. resolution, well, Iraq has been saying through Iraqi officials and through the state run media that it believes there is no need for a new United Nations resolution, the argument here being that Resolution 1441 that Iraq accepted to comply with back in November is being implemented and any new resolutions, say some of the editorials in today's newspapers, would actually be a pretext or provide a pretext for the United States to attack Iraq.
Now, with regard to the al-Samoud 2 missile that was found by a panel of experts at the United Nations to go beyond its authorized range of 93 miles, well, the director of the National Monitoring Directorate here spoke to reporters. He says Iraq is taking a request to destroy those missiles into deep consideration. But he also says that he would like Iraq and the United Nations to talk about this. He says technical talks could help solve this matter if there is no interference, as he puts it, by the U.S. and Britain on that issue -- Fredricka.
WHITFIELD: All right, Rym, thank you very much.
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