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By Geir Moulson I THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I DRESDEN, Germany — Fi ance and Germany refused Thursday to support a U.S. draft resolution that would spread the burden of running p< stwar Iraq, but said they Rlieved a compromise was Htssible. I French President Jacques ■lirac and German Chancellor ■erhard Schroeder demanded tlat Washington give the ■nited Nations more influence in Iraq’s political future. Their st nice threatened to reopen a b; rely healed trans-Atlantic rift oxer their ardent opposition to He Iraq war. I Under the draft resolution ci culated Wednesday at the ■nited Nations, Washington Heks money and troops from ■her countries but would not cede political or military con- ■ol in Iraq. I Chirac seemed particularly ci tical of the U.S. initiative ■id was adamant that the draft foresee the United States’ giv- ilg up control of the political process in Iraq. France is one of Hve permanent members of the ■.N. Security Council, mean- ilg it has veto power over council actions. I Yet Chirac and Schroeder, thee ting in Dresden for infor mal consultations, struck a con ciliatory note. They said they saw a chance to negotiate a compromise at the United Nations, where talks over the draft are expected to be tough and lengthy. Schroeder also said the pro posal fell short, but welcomed it as “showing there is some movement.” “We are naturally ready to study it in the most positive manner,” Chirac told reporters. “But we are quite far removed from what we believe is the pri ority objective, which is the transfer of political responsibil ity to an Iraqi government as quickly as possible.” Schroeder added: “I agree with the president when he says: Not dynamic enough, not sufficient.” Secretary of State Colin Powell noted that Chirac and Schroeder didn’t present a timetable for Iraqis to take control of their country. Still, he said Washington is “more than hafcpy to listen to their suggestions.” “I don’t sense from their statement that they said what exactly they are looking for or who they would turn it over to if we were turning it over right away,” Powell said in Washington. The United States favors Wanted: More international troops The top U.S. commander in Iraq, It. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, said Thursday he needs more international forces to deal with potential security threats - both he and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld emphasized that they don’t see a need for more U.S. troops. , TURKEY SYRIA North 2o,0yo u.s. North Central South Poland will lead 8,900 troops from 17 nations 0 100 mi 0100 km IRAN West 10,000 U.S. V’ I R Baghdad* 40,000 U.S. | Q South East / Britain lead! '14,000 tr from 10 nationi SAUDI ARABIA *Nol shown An additional 1,000 U.S troops are in the Baghdad area with the Coalition Joint Task Force, the joint command headquarters in Iraq. SOURCES^U.S Central Command; AP Associated Press having Iraqis themselves come up with a political transition plans, Powell said. Chirac and Schroeder side stepped questions about whether they might send troops to Iraq under any condition. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Thursday he would not rule out sending peacekeepers to Iraq as part of an international force, a strong signal that Moscow’s stance was edging closer to Washington’s. “It all depends on a specific resolution. I wouldn’t exclude it outright,” Ivanov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. France, Russia, India and other countries, including Arab nations, have ruled out con tributing soldiers to Iraq unless the United Nations authorizes a a multinational force. Germany has said it is ready in principle to help rebuild Iraq but has no plans for a military engagement in Iraq. Addressing the point more directly, German Defense Minister Peter Struck, speaking in Strasbourg, France, said no German troops would be sent in under the current U.S. proposal. “For the German side. I can say that the situation has not changed even with this reflec tion by the Americans,” Struck told a news conference. “So long as the legal situation in Iraq has not changed ... there is no point in discussing this sub ject” of German troops. Syria, a staunch opponent of the war in Iraq and the only Arab member of the Security Council, cautiously welcomed the U.S. proposal, saying it should be looked at positively. But the commentary on state- controlled Damascus Radio also called the draft “inade quate” for insisting on keep ing U.S. military control of postwar Iraq and refusing to give the United Nations a “full role.” At the United Nations, Germany’s Ambassador Gunter Pleuger said the U.S. draft was a good basis for negotiations, a view shared by many other Security Council members. “We will see in the negotia tions in the next days how far we can get,” Pleuger said. “It’s a good working basis but it cer tainly can be improved.” Echoing the French and German position, many council nations stressed that the key issues will be the U.N. role in Iraq and the degree of power the United States will be pre pared to relinquish. Mexico’s U.N. Ambassador Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, whose country opposed the war, said tfie thrust of a new resolution must be “the restoration of the full sovereignty of Iraqis.” “1 think the issue of the U.N. role is going to be an important source of discussion,” he said. “The philosophical view of Mexico is that this is a job for the United Nations.” id Mongon. I putting out a $1J > have someone m icutcnant. n is awaiting triai Arthur J. Abn > comment, before authorities x Conrai 1 Boyz, non were sentena tico to two yes' their roles in a u F’BI agents dunr, 1 robbery along the' igents were pummt and beaten last yea enforcement age the sting operaii border after W fered 122 robberies and 19 rock-ihiw in nine months in if El Paso, Texas ; plea n of church and si; sters to Montgomf Europe poll: Support for U.S. down after Iraqi war By Robert Wielaard THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I BRUSSELS, Belgium — After the Iraq war, sup port for U.S. global leadership has faded badly in European nations, most dramatically in Germany and Fiance which strenuously opposed the war, according to a survey released Thursday. I President Bush's standing has just about evaporat ed in Germany where his approval rating is 16 percent — down from 36 percent in 2002 — and where public opinion increasingly questions American leadership, said the Trans-Atlantic Trends 2003 survey. I “The Germany that never sought to choose between Europe and the United States has now e,\pressed an unambiguous preference for Europe,” it said. I The war has made the trans-Atlantic disconnect so significant that large chunks of public opinion in Fi ance (70 percent), Germany and Italy (both 50 per cent), Portugal (44 percent) now see U.S leadership as undesirable, the poll showed. I “The trans-Atlantic split over the war in Iraq has undermined Americans’ standing with Europeans,” it added. The survey of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Compagnia di Sao Paolo, a Turin foundation devoted to developing interest in international affairs in Italy was held in mid-June, two months after U.S. troops ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Washington went to war bypassing the United Nations, whose support it failed to win due to European opposition. The Trans-Atlantic Trends 2003 survey found broad support on both sides of the Atlantic to strength en the United Nations. However, 36 percent of Americans — and only 16 percent of Europeans — say it is all right to bypass the organization to defend vital national interests, the survey found. It said that hard on the heels of the Iraq war, Bush’s foreign policies polled only a 30 percent approval rat ing across Europe, down from 38 percent in 2002. In Britain and the Netherlands he fares better than in 2002: 35 percent of Britons approve of his foreign policies (up from 30 percent last year) and 37 percent of the Dutch (up from 28 percent), the survey found. However, Bush’s dismal 16 percent approval in Germany almost matches the tally in France (15 per cent, against 21 percent in 2002). The American president polled a 40-percent sup port level in Italy (down from 57 percent), 58 percent in Poland (down from 62 percent) and 41 percent in Portugal which was not polled in 2002, according to the survey. 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