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Could Tony Blair's special envoy to East Asia be the one to bring the case against Saddam to the UN?
"An international threat needs an international response, not isolating ourselves, not turning away and burying our heads in the sand," Mandelson said. He said Iraq had defied a host of UN Security Council resolutions and its leader Saddam Hussein was "a murderous despot" whose weapons of mass destruction posed a global threat. "The world has to take this threat seriously. We cannot just run away," Mandelson said.
He admitted that non-interference was a recognised principle in international relations. "But there must be qualifications to this principle of non-interference," he said, adding that the "threshold" should be a threat of intolerable and inescapable violence. "It is better to anticipate a crisis rather than be simply good at resolving crises," said Mandelson, Blair's special emissary to East Asia who is paying a three-day visit to Indonesia.
He said governments should consider whether the danger to the world posed by Iraq and its leader was greater than the risk of war, and whether the current international "selective and limited" isolation of Iraq was better than action taken directly against Saddam. Britain, like any other government, had to decide which side it was on. "On this side our allies might not be perfect, but they are certainly better than the other side," he said.
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