United Nations, Sept 06: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that it is possible to get a compromise resolution on Iraq and suggested that foreign ministers of veto wielding five permanent members of the Security Council meet with him to hammer out differences on the issue. Annan made the comment in an interview with a private TV channel as the security council began discussing the American draft resolution to establish a multinational force under the united states command in Iraq.

"There's going to be some discussions and negotiation but I think it is possible to get a compromise," he said.
Annan said that he asked representatives of the council's five permanent members -- the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China -- for a meeting with him and "explore a common ground and a way forward. And i hope that meeting would take place in the not-too-distant future."

The Secretary-General also said he wants the resolution to provide a "very clear definition for the UN, the role we should undertake" in Iraq.
The previous one establishing a UN role in reconstruction efforts, he said, "was rather ambiguous."

Bureau Report