No Limited Peace, Iraqi Leader Declares

President Saddam Hussein said Thursday that Iraq will reject any resolution by the U.N. Security Council seeking an end to the Persian Gulf War unless it provides for a comprehensive settlement.

“Iraq will accept nothing but a comprehensive peace that will eliminate all the elements of aggression and war,” Hussein said in a nationwide speech marking today’s 19th anniversary of Iraq’s July 17 revolution.

He reiterated that Iraq stands by the five principles that he announced in August, 1986, as a basis for ending the war with Iran, which has lasted almost seven years and was started by Iraq.

The principles are: a cease-fire; withdrawal of troops to internationally recognized borders; exchange of war prisoners; a treaty of peace and nonaggression, and agreement on non-interference in each other’s internal affairs.

“Any resolution that does not include the elements of a comprehensive settlement or counters the five principles . . . will not be accepted by Iraq,” Hussein said.

Diplomats at the United Nations have said Security Council members were trying to agree on a resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire between Iraq and Iran backed by a threat of sanctions to ensure compliance.

In Washington on Thursday, U.S. Ambassador Vernon A. Walters, citing unusual unanimity on the part of U.N. Security Council members, said he is confident the international panel will approve a resolution next week calling for a cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq War.

U.N. Vote Near

The Security Council is expected to vote on the U.S.-backed resolution next week. If Iran ignores the resolution, as is considered likely, it could be enforced later in the summer with another council resolution calling for an international arms embargo against Tehran.

In Moscow, a Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman, Boris Pyadyshev, attacked the United States for failing to respond to a Soviet proposal for all warships from countries outside the Persian Gulf to be removed from the region. He told a news briefing that U.S. plans to escort Kuwaiti ships in the gulf with American warships are dangerous and unpredictable and make the situation in the region more explosive.

Moscow says it will withdraw its warships from the region if the United States, Britain and France withdraw their ships. The United States has not yet replied to the proposal.