South Africa: Mbeki Says No to War in Iraq

Johannesburg — President Thabo Mbeki made an eloquent call on Friday for the Iraq question to be resolved peacefully through the United Nations, and not through war.

Writing in the African National Congress's on-line publication "ANC Today," under the headline "The promise of a world free of war," Mbeki said the Iraq issue was more than a decade old, and concerned the United Nations Security Council's decision that Iraq should be disarmed of all nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction.

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