(US appointed) Iraq president urges U.N. to review poll date

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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5447862

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's president has urged the United Nations to look into whether the country should go ahead with its scheduled
January 30 election despite violence threatening to scare voters away from the polls.

"Definitely the United Nations, as an independent umbrella of legitimacy ... should really take the responsibility by seeing whether that
(timing) is possible or not," Ghazi al-Yawar told Reuters in an interview.

The United Nations said it was up to Iraq's Independent Electoral Commission to decide. No official request had been received from Yawar,
said U.N. spokeswoman Marie Okabe.

Iraq's interim government and its American allies have repeatedly said that the vote would not be delayed. But Yawar said the polls would
fail if a raging insurgency kept a significant number of Sunnis away from voting stations.

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1. and Bush told him no

The elections have to take place, Bush insisted. Now that's sovereignty for you.

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3. DUplicate

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