After the letter was received, the three European countries formally submitted a draft resolution on Iran to the United Nations agency, said Mark Gwozdecky, the agency's spokesman.
During the negotiations that preceded its passage, American diplomats submitted a draft resolution with language specifying that Iraqi attempts to defend the zones from foreign aircraft would constitute a breach, diplomats said today.
Britain's David Cameron has called in Parliament, which will meet Thursday, with plans to vote more than once; on Wednesday, his government submitted a draft resolution to the Security Council of the United Nations that would authorize "all necessary measures to protect civilians" in Syria.
And in October, African member states of the UN submitted a draft resolution to the UN General Assembly urging states to condemn FGM and all harmful practices that affect women and girls and to "take all necessary measures, including enacting and enforcing legislation to prohibit FGM".
A year after the failure of the Palestinian bid for full membership in the UN, Abbas announced that he would seek the UN General Assembly's implicit recognition of Palestinian statehood by submitting a draft resolution requesting that the status of the Palestinian mission to the UN (officially called Palestine within the UN) be upgraded from "permanent observer" to "nonmember observer state".
On 30 October, the US called for a UN Security Council meeting, submitting a draft resolution calling on Israel to immediately withdraw its armed forces.
She said that IPEN has submitted a draft resolution on lead in paint that's been distributed to 110 delegates from 39 countries.
Subsequently, seven non-aligned members of the UN Security Council submitted a draft resolution calling for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Kampuchea, which was endorsed by China, France, Norway, Portugal, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Negotiations over the Security Council resolution were initially contentious, as the U.S., the UK, and France submitted a draft resolution that included automatic invocation of Chapter VII, sanctioning use of military force if Syria did not fulfill its commitments under the agreement.
