British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw (L) speaks with his French counterpart, Foreign Minister Domini.., 2003-05-23...

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw (L) speaks with his French counterpart, Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin (R) as they await the start of the plenary session of the G8 Foreign Minister meeting in Paris, May 23, 2003. [The U.N. Security Council, taking a first step toward patching deep rifts created by the U.S.-led war on Baghdad, has granted the United States and Britain broad powers to run postwar Iraq and use its abundant oil resources to finance its reconstruction France and Germany, along with China and Russia, who had opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq, voted for the resolution but had reservations.]