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Moderator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome the UN Iraq Resolution conference call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question and answer session and instructions will be given at that time. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.
I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Ivo Daalder. Please go ahead.
Ivo Daadler: Hello. I'm joined here with Martin Indyk to answer your questions on the Iraq resolution. To start off with, let me start with talking a little bit about how this plays into the market foreign policy and the administration's foreign policy more generally. Then Martin will talk about the implications for Iraq and the Arab world, in just a couple of minutes for us each.
I'd make three points. First, this is a major, major success for the administration. A fifteen to zero vote is something that even this morning wasn't clear was going to be gotten, and as little as two days ago it seemed that it was even possible for Russia to walk away and this whole thing would have collapsed, but it didn't. We got 14 countries to sign up to the resolution. We now have as unanimous a resolution as we've ever had in the case of Iraq, in fact, more unanimous than ever before, for the strongest inspection regime that we've ever had to give Saddam what the resolutions calls one final opportunity to come clean on his disarmament obligations, and we'll see how that works out.
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