Indian External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha Friday said "And the longer the conflict lasts the stronger will be the feeling of injustice. I think all of us who have been at the receiving end of terrorism have to be, therefore, far more careful in planning for the future than has been the case so far."

To a question on the US Secretary of State Colin Powell's statement that Gen. Tommy Franks will be "the administrator in Iraq" after the ouster of president Saddam Hussein, Sinha said there were indications that "US and UK could be planning something of this kind."

"It appears to us that the most important issue that will face post-conflict Iraq is the issue of territorial integrity. It is quite clear that, therefore, any kind of a weak regime in Iraq may not be the right thing to do. But our preference clearly will be for a UN dispensation," said he.

(Xinhua News Agency March 28, 2003)