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Mexico, which began to serve as UN Security Council president for the month of April on Tuesday, has stressed a UN role in post-war Iraq.
The reconstruction of Iraq "should not be managed by one, two or three countries. It should be undertaken by the United Nations instead," Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Derbez said in a statement published by the local press on Tuesday.
Derbez said his country will make efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people and strengthen the international order.
Mexico assumed the Security Council presidency at a time when the council had been seriously split over the military action staged by the United States and Britain against Iraq without a UN mandate.
"We will try to get the council working again, to come up with resolutions by consensus that are positive" for Iraq and its people, said the foreign minister.
(Xinhua News Agency April 2, 2003)
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