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U.N. Vote on Disarming Iraq Expected to Come Next Week
Aired November 01, 2002 - 08:19 ET
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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: A United Nations vote on disarming Iraq is now expected to come next week. And today while the Bush administration is expressing some new confidence that the U.N. Security Council will end up passing a tough new resolution that could lead to war, companies from around the world are gathering in Baghdad for an international trade fair.
Our Rym Brahimi is there and she's going to check in now and tell us what the large turnout says about international support for Iraq -- Rym, are any of the Security Council members there represented?
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Leon, they are, indeed. You actually have countries that are even part of permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- France, China and Russia are represented here. Syria, also, who's a non-permanent member of the Security Council, but also other U.S. allies, like Greece, Spain, Bulgaria or even Turkey, Turkey actually in very big numbers.
All in all, there must be some more than 1,200 companies represented here from 49 different countries. It was such a big affair. It's being highly publicized here in Baghdad. So the vice president himself came to inaugurate it, reiterating Iraq's position with regard to the debate at the U.N. Security Council, but also saying that he was confident that those member states would actually back him.
Here's what he had to say.
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TAHA YASSIN RAMADAN, IRAQI VICE PRESIDENT: We are confident that these states will stand by Iraq and they will oppose any draft resolution the U.S. administration and Britain will try to pass at the second quarter in the future.
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BRAHIMI: Well, you see this reflects, Leon, very much what seems to be the thinking of many Iraqi officials here, who believe that if there is a way to avert the conflict with the United States, it can only be done with international backing. So that's something we're hearing a lot here these days in Baghdad. In the state run media, a lot of calls for the international community for support and this big affair, the international trade fair, again, with lots of businessmen from many countries in the world, a message, in a way, to the world and maybe, in particular, to the United States that Iraq is not as isolated as it was 12 years ago -- Leon. HARRIS: Rym Brahimi live from Baghdad.
Thank you very much, Rym.
We'll check back with you later on.
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Aired November 1, 2002 - 08:19 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: A United Nations vote on disarming Iraq is now expected to come next week. And today while the Bush administration is expressing some new confidence that the U.N. Security Council will end up passing a tough new resolution that could lead to war, companies from around the world are gathering in Baghdad for an international trade fair.
Our Rym Brahimi is there and she's going to check in now and tell us what the large turnout says about international support for Iraq -- Rym, are any of the Security Council members there represented?
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Leon, they are, indeed. You actually have countries that are even part of permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- France, China and Russia are represented here. Syria, also, who's a non-permanent member of the Security Council, but also other U.S. allies, like Greece, Spain, Bulgaria or even Turkey, Turkey actually in very big numbers.
All in all, there must be some more than 1,200 companies represented here from 49 different countries. It was such a big affair. It's being highly publicized here in Baghdad. So the vice president himself came to inaugurate it, reiterating Iraq's position with regard to the debate at the U.N. Security Council, but also saying that he was confident that those member states would actually back him.
Here's what he had to say.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
TAHA YASSIN RAMADAN, IRAQI VICE PRESIDENT: We are confident that these states will stand by Iraq and they will oppose any draft resolution the U.S. administration and Britain will try to pass at the second quarter in the future.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BRAHIMI: Well, you see this reflects, Leon, very much what seems to be the thinking of many Iraqi officials here, who believe that if there is a way to avert the conflict with the United States, it can only be done with international backing. So that's something we're hearing a lot here these days in Baghdad. In the state run media, a lot of calls for the international community for support and this big affair, the international trade fair, again, with lots of businessmen from many countries in the world, a message, in a way, to the world and maybe, in particular, to the United States that Iraq is not as isolated as it was 12 years ago -- Leon. HARRIS: Rym Brahimi live from Baghdad.
Thank you very much, Rym.
We'll check back with you later on.
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