Article: Germany will chair Iraq sanctions committee after U.S. drops opposition, diplomats say

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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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