Iraq Crisis:Dont spoil Olympics, says Japan
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Earlier this week, the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called on all UN member nations to observe a truce during the Olympics. The White House said this week it was aware that any attack on Iraq during the Games would break the traditional Olympic truce, but said the United States government must make its own decisions. - Reuters, Tokyo
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