UN role in post-war Iraq on UK-US summit agenda

The UN's role in post-war Iraq will be one of the issues of contention between the UK's Tony Blair and the US's George W Bush, in Belfast for a two-day summit - the third they have held in three weeks.

While both have agreed that the US will be in control of Iraq in the immediate aftermath of the war, with an eventual handover to an Iraqi authority, differences still exist over the role of the UN and how long the process of handover should take.

The UK wants the UN to oversee a co...