Merkel uses French acquiescence to push through tough draft rules for a permanent bailout fund and insists on losses for private creditors to Greece, sparking an almighty fight with the European Central Bank.
In a tense three-way contest in the Security Council, the United States pressed today for rapid approval of its tough draft resolution to disarm Iraq while France and Russia presented their own informal texts designed to moderate the threat of military attack.
Culminating weeks of negotiations, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a tough resolution, drafted by the United States and Britain, requiring that Iraq show it has abandoned its weapons of mass destruction or face "serious consequences".
Rejecting a tough resolution drafted by Britain, France and Germany that "deplores" inadequate co-operation thus far, Mr Khatami insisted that, if the resolution were to pass (as it was expected to), he would feel "no moral commitment" to continue to suspend Iran's uranium-enrichment programme.
In the report, which was made public on Oct. 20, he also said the Syrians had deliberately misled his investigators and offered little cooperation, and that claim provided the basis for drafting a tough resolution.
He said he had been personally involved in drafting a tough negotiation agenda to secure territorial claims and extra money for the region's armed forces, the pesh merga, and resolve outstanding differences with Baghdad over how to allot oil revenues.
Usually, the United States drafts a tough measure and China softens it.
She drafted a tough new law setting safe standards for lead exposure and requiring landlords to remove lead paint and other hazards.
"It's got to be a tough transition even when you're drafted and you've got to get used to making plays off the bench".
The sense of anti-climax, a tough schedule the following season, a low draft ranking – many factors count against Super Bowl runners-up.
