PARIS (Reuters) - France wants improvements to a U.S.-British draft resolution outlining the handover of power to an interim Iraqi government, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said on Tuesday.
It is a draft -- a draft which should be discussed and improved," Barnier said after talks in Paris with European Union (news - web sites) foreign policy chief Javier Solana. France, which opposed the war in Iraq (news - web sites), holds a power of veto in the U.N. Security Council.
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"It is mainly to do with the sincerity, reality, the credibility of the process of the transfer of sovereignty," he told reporters.
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The draft resolution says the interim government would "assume the responsibility and authority for governing a sovereign Iraq" but allow U.S. forces there to "take all measures" to keep order and sets no date for their departure.
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