The actual aid itself is not yet forthcoming
Alternate title:World's Major Centralized Economies Agree Who Is In Charge Of Iraq
U.S. Gets Backing for More U.N. Aid in Iraq
By Colum Lynch
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 16, 2003; Page A20
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 15 -- The Bush administration reached an agreement Wednesday with Russia, China and Pakistan on a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on U.N. members to supply more troops and money to support the occupation of Iraq, according to U.S. and U.N. diplomats.
That agreement assured that an overwhelming council majority would pass the U.S.-sponsored resolution, but the United States agreed to a Russian request to delay a vote until 10 a.m. Thursday.
The pact on the resolution, which will place U.S. forces at the head of a U.N.-mandated multinational force, was struck after the United States offered a final series of concessions. They included a wider role for U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan in Iraq's constitutional process and a guarantee that the mandate for the force will expire when a new Iraqi government is sworn in, probably at the end of 2004.
