Iraq's Presidency Council approved a resolution Sunday to allow non-U.S. troops to remain in the county after a U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year.
On the specific issue of U.N. recognition, the President is entirely right that in the end the Palestinian state will only come about if the Palestinians and the Israelis can agree to it coming about.
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Another al-Maliki adviser, Sadeq al-Rikabi, said the contract would be temporary since the U.N. mandate under which the United States operates in Iraq will expire at the end of the year, to be replaced by a bilateral agreement under negotiation.
That would give Bolton the U.N. ambassador's job until the end of the current session of Congress in January 2007.
But it did not extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, known as MONUC, which is due to expire at the end of the year.
Since the war Putin has also called for an international presence in Iraq and for proof that weapons of mass destruction do not exist in the country before passing a resolution which would lift U.N. sanctions against Iraq and bring to an end the oil-for-food program.
Mohamud was inaugurated in September at the end of an eight-year U.N.
Otherwise, union workers will end up like the police and firefighters in Camden, N.
Washington and Baghdad have been locked in negotiations on the terms of a long-term deal to keep U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the end of the year, when a U.N. mandate that gives the U.S. legal cover to stay in Iraq ends.
They left the Sudanese border last Monday - the very day of Eufor's endorsement by Brussels - and were in N'Djamena by week's end.
"This could easily set off a price war in which the consumer wins in the end, " says Richard Doherty, director of Envisioneering Group, a technology consultancy in Seaford, N.
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