BEIJING: China closed ranks with France, Germany and Russia yesterday and promised to block a new UN resolution authorising war on Iraq, saying conflict would bring a humanitarian disaster and economic turmoil.
Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan's comments were some of the strongest China has made on the issue so far, but he would not be drawn on whether Beijing would go as far as to veto a resolution.
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