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THE BATTALION
Friday, Decrafe
UN approves temporal)
post-Taliban governme
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.
Security Council unanimously approved a
power-sharing agreement for a temporary
post-Taliban government in Afghanistan
Thursday but held off authorizing a multina
tional security force.
The council said in a resolution that it is
determined to help the Afghan people estab
lish lasting peace after more than two decades
of war, and to cooperate with the internation
al community “to put an end to the use of
Afghanistan as a base for terrorism.”
The resolution endorses the agreement
signed Wednesday by four Afghan factions
in Bonn, Germany. It urges all Afghan
groups to implement it “in full.”
The U.N.-brokered agreement calls for a
30-member interim authority to govern
Afghanistan for six months, starting Dec.
22. The former king will then convene a tra
ditional tribal council to pave the way for
elections within two years.
The agreement asks the Security Council
to authorize a multinational force to assist in
maintaining security, initially in the capital
Kabul and possibly elsewhere later.
The United States wanted to include a
reference to the force in the resolution, but
other council members wanted a number of
questions answered first so there is no men
tion of a force, diplomats said,
Russia’s deputy U.N. ambassador
Andrey Granovsky said the council needed
to consult with Afghan leaders about a secu
rity force. “We want to know what they
think about it. This is not a ’no man’s land.’
They live there.”
Council members also want to know who
is going to contribute troops and who is
going to lead the force and they want assur
ance that there are no clashes between the
U.N. force and the U.S.-led military opera
tion, diplomats said.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said
Thursday in Brussels that an international
peacekeeping force will soon be sent into
Afghanistan, although “the mix and the
leadership" among nations has yet to be
determined. “There will be no shortage of
troops,” he said.
U.S. deputy ambassador James
Cunningham said the resolution gave a
“political impulse” to the agreement. He
said countries needed to discuss how to
meet the request for an internal
before the council acts.
U.N. Secretary-General KofiArj
“We have many hurdles ahead.aat
going to try and do our best, and«:
the Afghan parties to cooperate will
The United Nations would like
on the ground in Kabul by the a
interim government takes power
22, diplomats said.
Annan noted that the Secuni;
will be coming back to the issueli
hope not much later because it is 2
tial part of the agreement."
Council diplomats said they expej
olution authorizing an international:;
force to be adopted later this moti
on drafting the resolution is exfe;
begin early next week, they said.
The council is also expected tf t
third resolution authorizing a U.N.e
provide humanitarian relief in Afghi-
Annan said his top envoy toAfc
Lakhdar Brahimi. would soon re
Kabul and sit down with the panie-
cuss “practical steps” to impled
agreement.
Japanese crown princess named Ait<
TOKYO (AP) — A week
after she was bom, the newest
member of Japan’s royal family
on Friday was bathed and
named Princess Aiko in elabo
rate and ancient court rituals.
Many Japanese have been in
high spirits since Crown
Princess Masako gave birth
Saturday to her first child. She
and Crown Prince Naruhito wed
more than eight years ago.
The Imperial Household
Agency has said mother and
daughter are healthy, but has
n’t yet offered much informa
tion or released any pictures of
the newborn.
On Friday, however, the pub
lic was treated to daylong
pageantries beginning with the
princess’s bathing ritual. A first
glimpse of the baby was expect
ed Saturday, when Masako, 37,
will leave the palace hospital,
national broadcaster NHK said.
In a carefully choreographed
ceremony, a royal attendant
poured water over the infant, as
scholars in ancient court dress
plucked at strings of wooden bows
to ward off evil spirits and a court-
appointed official read from an 8th
century Japanese history text.
After its bath, the baby was
named Aiko and given the royal
title Toshi-no-miya, said palace
spokesman Hirofumi Oka. In a
break with tradition, the name
was chosen by the baby’s par
ents, instead of by the emperor.
Taken from the teachings of
the Chinese philoso pher
Mencius, Aiko — written with
the characters for “love” and
“child” — refers to a virtuous
person. Mencius, a Confucian
moralist who lived from 372-
289 BC, stressed the goodness
of human nature.
The imperial household is the
chief guardian of Japan’s indige
nous Shinto religion, and the ritu
als are supposed to evoke a sense
of the nation’s ancient hia
The origins of the
oldest hereditary monc
shrouded in myth, whict
that the royal family iv;
descended from the su
dess. Most historians ag
at least 1,500 years old.
As the eldest sonofL'l
Akihito and Empress \t |
Naruhito, 41, is heir
Chrysanthemum Throis
birth of the princess has
fied discussion of wheit
government should abaK|
current males-only lawir
of one that would a
woman to assume the!
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