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 France, Germany Working On War Alternative For Iraq: 

France and Germany are at work on their own plan for disarming Saddam Hussein's Iraq which centres on a de facto takeover by UN troops, according to a report in German weekly Der Spiegel. The magazine cited unnamed government officials saying the plan had been conceived with the approval of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who reportedly told ministers it was "not enough" simply to reject US war plans. It said that a draft of the plan, which reportedly would also make all of the country a no-fly zone, had been passed on to China, Greece, current president of the European Union, and Russia. In Berlin a government spokesman declined to confirm the report but said that there were "thoughts in common to find peaceful alternatives to a military resolution to the Iraq conflict."

Source: DW-World

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