UN has key role to play in Iraq transition - Blair

Tony Blair has said that the UN should play a key role in mediating Iraq’s transition to sovereignty and curtailing the spiralling violence that has hindered the US-led occupation.

“The circumstances will require us at some point in the near future to have a new UN Security Council resolution that will allow us to point (the) way toward political transition in Iraq,” said the UK Prime Minister, who was to meet President George W Bush on today to discuss the Iraq crisis.