Russia has backed a French call for a new U.N. resolution, saying this would help form a new political leadership in Iraq and the holding of democratic elections, but questions remain over whether Washington would be willing to share control over post-war Iraq.
Apart from much jetting around and private palaver among eminent people under U.N. auspices, the chief visible product ofthe Dialogue was a report, released in book forminthe fall of 2001.