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Open Debate to Continue Today
Aired March 12, 2003 - 13:08 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: The question is, how will this proposed British proposal, how will it play at the United Nations Security Council? For more on that, we turn to CNN's Richard Roth, our senior U.N. correspondent. What's your sense of it, Richard, these six points? It is an open question as to whether Saddam Hussein would ever reply or respond to them in any satisfactory way. How will it play in the Security Council?
RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT: Well, with the countries who have veto power, who object to the resolution as it stands now, it will not play very well. Russian ambassador Sergey Lavrov telling me this resolution is beyond repair. He doesn't want to have any type of ultimatum, or hint of use of force approved by the Security Council.
There's Angola, still a nonpermanent member, and according to CNN's State Department correspondent, Andrea Koppel, now in the United States' camp. But the U.S. still doesn't have the nine votes.
We can talk a little bit about process in a moment, but that open debate in the Security Council is going to continue in two hours, and Australia's ambassador really set the mood for the fear running through this organization.
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JOHN DAUTH, AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR TO U.N.: We are at a historic moment for the council, and for international security. The architecture of international peace and security in which we, all of us, have invested so much over the past 50 years, hangs in the balance. The council's decisions could either strengthen this architecture or gravely undermine it.
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ROTH: Basically, regarding that resolution that Chris Burns was talking about, one diplomat told us there's no new date in the British idea so far other than the 17, which already exists, March 17. Another diplomat said the British proposal, the updated changes might leave the deadline date blank. The Iraqi ambassador, Mohammed Aldouri, said the British are trapped, they are in a box, and they have to find a way out -- Miles.
O'BRIEN: All right, Richard, we'll be watching it closely. Thank you very much, Richard Roth at the United Nations.
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Aired March 12, 2003 - 13:08 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: The question is, how will this proposed British proposal, how will it play at the United Nations Security Council? For more on that, we turn to CNN's Richard Roth, our senior U.N. correspondent. What's your sense of it, Richard, these six points? It is an open question as to whether Saddam Hussein would ever reply or respond to them in any satisfactory way. How will it play in the Security Council?
RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT: Well, with the countries who have veto power, who object to the resolution as it stands now, it will not play very well. Russian ambassador Sergey Lavrov telling me this resolution is beyond repair. He doesn't want to have any type of ultimatum, or hint of use of force approved by the Security Council.
There's Angola, still a nonpermanent member, and according to CNN's State Department correspondent, Andrea Koppel, now in the United States' camp. But the U.S. still doesn't have the nine votes.
We can talk a little bit about process in a moment, but that open debate in the Security Council is going to continue in two hours, and Australia's ambassador really set the mood for the fear running through this organization.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JOHN DAUTH, AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR TO U.N.: We are at a historic moment for the council, and for international security. The architecture of international peace and security in which we, all of us, have invested so much over the past 50 years, hangs in the balance. The council's decisions could either strengthen this architecture or gravely undermine it.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
ROTH: Basically, regarding that resolution that Chris Burns was talking about, one diplomat told us there's no new date in the British idea so far other than the 17, which already exists, March 17. Another diplomat said the British proposal, the updated changes might leave the deadline date blank. The Iraqi ambassador, Mohammed Aldouri, said the British are trapped, they are in a box, and they have to find a way out -- Miles.
O'BRIEN: All right, Richard, we'll be watching it closely. Thank you very much, Richard Roth at the United Nations.
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