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Article: Germany will chair Iraq sanctions committee after U.S. drops opposition, diplomats say
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- December 21, 2002
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Dateline: UNITED NATIONS
Germany will chair the committee monitoring sanctions against Iraq
when it joins the Security Council in January after the United States
dropped its opposition during final behind-the-scenes negotiations,
diplomats said.
Colombia's U.N. Ambassador Alfonso Valdivieso, the current council
president, circulated the list of proposed committee chairs late Friday
with Germany heading the Iraq sanctions committee.
Last week, council diplomats said the Bush administration didn't want
Germany to lead the committee because of lingering U.S. anger over
German opposition to a U.S. attack against Saddam Hussein _ even though
Germany got high marks when it ...
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