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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Secretary of State Colin Powell is
warning France that it faces con
sequences for trying to block the
U.S.-led war with Iraq, and Bush
administration officials are
exploring ways to exclude France
from some NATO meetings.
A senior U.S. official, speak
ing on condition of anonymity,
said Wednesday the recommen
dations would be based on the
notion that the U.S.-French
relationship must be altered.
Potential punishments were
discussed Monday at a meeting
of top assistants to Powell,
Vice President Dick Cheney,
Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld and Condoleeza
Rice, the president’s national
security adviser.
These could include exclud
ing France from meetings with
U.S. allies and bypassing the
North Atlantic Council, of
which France is a member.
Bypassing the council,
NATO’s governing body, could
mean excluding France from
U.S. deliberations with
European and Canadian allies
because France is not a member
of NATO’s Defense Planning
Committee, where the talks
would be shifted.
Such a step was taken in
February, when NATO con
vened the little-used committee
to get around French opposition
and break a stalemate about pro
tecting Turkey from possible
retaliatory attacks by neighbor
ing Iraq in case of war.
The issues of whether NATO
peacekeepers would go into Iraq
and whether they would look for
hidden weapons may also
become matters for this commit
tee, said a State Department
official, speaking on condition
of anonymity.
Powell, in a PBS interview
Tuesday night, said there would
be consequences for France’s
opposing the United States in
the United Nations. He
described it as “a very difficult
period,” but did not say what the
administration had in mind.
State Department spokesman
Richard Boucher said on
Wednesday that “it’s more than
philosophical. Potentially, it will
affect how some decisions are
made in the future.”
White House spokesman Ari
pled. France favors suspem
the sanctions, which Bom
said implies that they coult
re imposed.
“Sanctions should be lift
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said that. It should be ent
And we need to get together
talk about how to do that.”
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on the relationship, and that’s a
consequence that was paid.”
In the end, Bush believes the
two countries and two people
have common values and that
the alliance will continue,
Fleischer said.
French Foreign Minister
Dominique de Villepin tele
phoned Powell Wednesday
while traveling in the Middle
East, Boucher said. Among the
issues they discussed were sanc
tions against Iraq.
The United States proposes
eliminating them as an unneces
sary burden on Iraqis people
now that Saddam Hussein and
his government have been top-
law,” he said.
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all circumstances,” the Fra
official said.
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interview how de Villepinte.
to block a second U.N. rev
tion approving the use of f :
to disarm Iraq.
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minister went to the three Afa
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get” the three votes.
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come to a vote. “France sii
there’s nothing you can wri
we wouldn't veto,” Powell
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defeat any resolution,
favored extending 111
weapons inspections instead:
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