The U.S. on Monday announced that it is going to propose a new draft UN resolution on Iraq that “will help put Iraqis back in control of their country and give a bigger political role to the United Nations”.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has expressed hope that the UN Security Council would endorse the resolution, stressing that the U.S. had tried to marshal support of several countries for that resolution.

However, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Dominique de Villepin said on Sunday that U.S. may not be able to have its new resolution on Iraq passed at the Security Council.

Villepin also stressed that the U.S. has no other alternative for improving the situation in Iraq but to hand over sovereignty to the Iraqi people “within months”.

Political analysts believe that U.S. decision to refer to UN and also to amend its draft resolution on Iraq shows that the White House leaders have backed away from their previous positions on Iraqi issues.

Continued unrest and insecurity in Iraq over the past five months have largely helped force the U.S. to return to UN in dealing with the affairs of that country.

The problems of the U.S. in Iraq are even more complicated when one comes to consider that the Iraqi people and even the Iraqi Governing Council are calling on the White House leaders to withdraw U.S. troops from the country.

Another problem that the U.S. is facing in Iraq is the failure of its allies, like Japan, to respond to its calls for sending troops to Iraq.

Considering all these conditions, the U.S. has no other alternative but to refer to UN to drum up international support for its programs to reconstruct Iraq and establish security in the country.

Yet, the international community is still suspicious over the real motivations of the U.S. in encouraging UN to participate in Iraq’s affairs. The world is still concerned that the U.S. may manipulate UN for pressing ahead its programs.

This is the reason why certain members of the Security Council maintain that it is difficult for UN to issue a new resolution on Iraq without considering the right of the Iraqi people to self-determination and without setting a timetable for the U.S.-British-led troops to leave the country.