France, Russia and China all veto-wielding council members want the resolution to give Iraq a chance to cooperate with UN weapons inspectors. If Baghdad fails to comply, they want the Security Council to meet and only then consider military action in a second document.
But the US and Britain, the other two veto-wielding members, are
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