http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N21290119.htmUNITED NATIONS, July 21 (Reuters) - A delegation from Iraq's new Governing Council squabbled on Monday over who could address the U.N. Security Council during Tuesday's progress report on Iraqi reconstruction, council diplomats said.
Ahmed Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress and a divisive figure in Baghdad who enjoys the support of the Pentagon, decided to cancel his trip to New York after learning that only one member of the delegation would be able to address the Security Council, diplomats said.
Chalabi changed his mind after it was tentatively agreed that both he and former Foreign Minister Adnan Pachachi could speak, the diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
But a spokesman for Spanish Ambassador Inocencio Arias, the Security Council president for July, said only Pachachi would be able to speak, following U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Annan's special envoy for Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello.
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