The United States expects the United Nations Security Council will be able to agree a new resolution on Iraq's future in the next few days, top US officials said on Sunday.
National security adviser Condoleezza Rice said agreement had been reached on major issues and a resolution was now very close following talks in France between US President George W. Bush and French President Jacques Chirac.
Security Council ambassadors discussed the resolution on Saturday and were scheduled to meet in special session at 5 pm (2100 GMT) on Sunday.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell said he expected the final resolution to be passed "in the next several days." It will endorse the sovereignty that passes to Iraq's new interim government on June 30 and put in place arrangements for US-led military forces to remain in Iraq.
"There aren't any major issues left on the resolution. We are working out details," Powell said on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."
Powell's expectation of a breakthrough came after Iraq's new prime minister, Iyad Allawi, sent information to the United Nations about how his country can have an input into US military operations after the handover to an interim Iraqi government on June 30.
Rice said the United States had now resolved with the Iraqi government the question of whether Baghdad would have the right to veto actions by the US military.
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