The UN would not recognize our hand picked Iraqi government today

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Iraqi delegation embraced at UN; not named government

UNITED NATIONS, July 22 (Reuters) - U.N. Security Council members on Tuesday embraced a delegation from Iraq's new Governing Council, a step toward international legitimacy, but did not name it as successor to Saddam Hussein's government.

A three-member delegation from the 25-member Governing Council, appointed by the United States nine days ago, made its debut at the United Nations. Its spokesman, Adnan Pachachi, a former foreign minister before Saddam took power, pledged his country would never return to totalitarianism.

"Our primary goal is to shorten the duration of the interim administration, to pave the way for a new constitution and a popularly elected government in Iraq," Pachachi said. "The state intelligence services and mandatory arrests and random executions are done for once and for all."

The United States and Britain, struggling to restore security and revive Iraq's crippled economy, are seeking financial and military support. But countries like France, Russia, Germany and India have said they need a new U.N. mandate first, an issue none of them mentioned on Tuesday.

However, the German and French ambassadors said financial support for reconstruction would only be forthcoming if international agencies had a say in how it would be spent.

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