NEW YORK - Locked in a dispute with leading Shiite clerics over election issues, the U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq will ask the United Nations Monday to play a role in the creation of a new Iraqi government.
"The UN has a lot of expertise in organizing elections, electoral commissions, electoral laws and has a great deal of expertise to bear in the process of writing a constitution," said Paul Bremer.
Bremer will be in New York along with Adnan Pachachi, the current president of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, for a meeting with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
The U.S. wants an assembly in place by its June 30 deadline to formally end the occupation. Instead of a mass election, the U.S. plan calls for provincial caucuses from 18 regions to select members for the interim government.
CBC.CA Personally I think the Shrub should go and aks them, he dissed them, he should have to suck it up like a man and apologize and then ask for help....oh shit, sorry, I was talking about the Shrub, that won'thappen anytime soon.