主题：【能源】达成联合国同意IRAQ驻军的背后，BUSH和北约国家分赃 -- 西风陶陶

在这种格局下，猜猜看伊拉克抵抗运动是否会式微？中国还是被排斥在世界核心决策和利益分配外，该怎么办？如果伊拉克问题不再能作为台湾问题的GRIDLOCK，中国的外交牌该怎么打？

Bush Sees Possible NATO Role in Iraq; Chirac Demurs

Wed Jun 9, 2004 02:41 PM ET

By Steve Holland

SEA ISLAND, Ga. (Reuters) - President Bush proposed a NATO role in Iraq at the Group of Eight summit Wednesday but the main opponent of the war, French President Jacques Chirac, said the alliance had no mission there.

Fresh from winning a U.N. resolution on Iraq, Bush and his closest Iraq war ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, discussed possible NATO involvement in training Iraqi security forces over breakfast.

"We believe NATO ought to be involved," Bush said, but added: "There's going to be some constraints, obviously. A lot of NATO countries are not in a position to commit more troops."

Chirac told a news conference he did not think it was the "mission" of NATO to intervene in Iraq.

"Nor do I think it would be relevant or well-understood in Iraq," he said, adding that he would be willing to consider the idea if the interim government due to take over in Iraq on June 30 requested it.

But Chirac and fellow G8 member Gerhard Schroeder of Germany, who both strongly opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq last year, reported a collegial diplomatic atmosphere at the summit.

"There has been a remarkable change in the American foreign policy," said the German chancellor. U.S. officials described Bush's meeting with Schroeder Tuesday as the warmest between the two leaders in more than a year.

"American colleagues understood they have to play ball and they did play ball," said Chirac.

Bush is seeking the endorsement of his G8 colleagues for an initiative aimed at promoting democratic and economic reforms in the greater Middle East, and has invited the leaders of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Jordan, Tunisia, Turkey and Yemen to the summit.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak declined an invitation to attend. A senior Egyptian official said summit organizers offered him the opportunity to speak for three minutes at lunch and he did not think it worth his while to travel thousands of miles just for that.

Chirac told those at the summit lunch that democracy could not be imposed from outside and ending Middle East conflicts had to be the priority.

"We must stand ready to help. But we must also take care not to provoke," he said. "For that would be to risk feeding extremism and falling into the fatal trap of the clash of 'civilizations:' precisely what we wish to avoid."

Blair's official spokesman told reporters a communique on the initiative expected later Wednesday would stress a renewed commitment to the roadmap and quartet process aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"We fully support that (the communique) and in particular the emphasis on working in partnership with countries of the Middle East and North Africa, both in terms of reform and in terms of building up capacity," the spokesman said.

The initiative has been the subject of negotiations for six months and the United States had to rewrite some of it to satisfy European concerns.

On Iraq, Blair said Iraqis needed to be in a position to provide stability and security themselves.

"There is a capability that is there at the moment, but we know there are gaps in that capability and we are there to help them and make sure the Iraqis ultimately can take care of their own security and defense," Blair said.

In Baghdad, Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said the country would need foreign troops to fight guerrillas even after the U.S.-led occupation formally ends on June 30 in line with the U.N. resolution.

Underlining the challenge, guerrillas killed 12 members of an Iraqi security force entrusted with pacifying Falluja, west of Baghdad, and saboteurs blew up a northern oil pipeline.

Iraq's new president, Ghazi al-Yawar, made his first entrance on the world stage at the lunch at the summit in Sea Island, Georgia, being held behind tight security.

The G8 countries -- the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and Russia -- threw their weight behind efforts to reach a framework agreement in world trade talks by the end of July.

U.S. trade officials, speaking on condition they not be identified, said the G8 position would boost chances for an ambitious outcome in negotiations aimed at lowering farm subsidy spending and reducing agricultural tariffs.