http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040419/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_spain_un&cid=1514&ncid=1480MADRID (AFP) - Spain's new defence minister said that his country would never again "turn its back" on the UN or the Spanish people, an allusion to the sending of troops to Iraq (news - web sites) last year by the ousted conservative government.
"We will never again turn our back on the United Nations (news - web sites)," said Jose Bono.
"Nor will we turn our backs on Spaniards -- be they rightwing or leftwing -- who neither understand nor accept the presence of Spanish troops in Iraq," he said.
"One cannot act against the Spanish people," said Bono, alluding to the decision by former conservative prime minister Jose Maria Aznar to send Spanish forces to Iraq in the teeth of massive popular opposition last August.
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