Bush Urged UN to Confront Iraq

US president, George W. Bush urged UN to take action in order to Iraq which has defied UN resolutions of UN after 1991, to close down a biological and chemical weapons and the nuclear capability facilities without condition, through a speech in the UN General Assembly. President Bush strongly suggested that US would attack Iraq if the UN doesn’t take any action to prevent.

He blamed in the UN General Assembly on September 12, “Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has defied UN for 10 years. UN must take the new stern action for weapon inspection of Iraq.”

Correspondents said that the speech of the president Bush called for the international support for expulsion of Hussein government and contained the purport of obtaining of UN’s support.

However, Secretary-General of UN objected to a military plan of US through speech of UN general assembly before the speech of the president Bush. He emphasized “If any country uses the military power to cope with wide threats on international peach and security, there is no substitute for the unique legitimacy provided by the United Nations.”

“We will not allow any terrorist or tyrant to threaten civilisation with weapons of mass murder," the president Bush said in the speech for the first anniversary of 9.11 terror.

AP Broadcast reported that the president Bush established a deadline to accept the weapon inspection of US for by Iraq in the speech of UN General Assembly. If Iraq defies it, the new demand for strong actions is likely to be called for.

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