THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/iraq

Past differences must be forgotten and we must look to future, EP states, calling for more multilateral and more democratic crisis management - “Foreign troops must be replaced by UN peacekeeping force”

Brussels, 06/07/2005 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on Iraq (Rapporteur: Girogos Dimitrakopoulos, EPP-ED, Greece) in which MEPs call for foreign troops deployed in Iraq (essentially American and British) to be replaced by a United Nations peace-keeping force. The EU should encourage the adoption of a new Security Council resolution to this end. The EP also “expresses the need to move on from past events” such as the deep differences over the...