U.N. Resolution Near on Truce in Iran-Iraq War

The U.N. Security Council has agreed on the draft of a binding resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq War, a Foreign Ministry official said today.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the resolution probably will be approved at a Security Council meeting Monday in New York.

He said Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher will attend the session.

“It’s a resolution that calls on the warring parties to end their conflict,” the official said.

“It has a binding effect. If one side or or both sides don’t abide by it, then the Security Council is called on to enforce the resolution,” he said.

Danger to Oil Supply

He said enforcement measures range from economic boycott to “military action” but did not elaborate.

The Iran-Iraq War, which began in September, 1980, has endangered much of the world’s oil supplies as the combatants attack neutral vessels in an effort to shut down each other’s economies.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Vernon Walters, recently returned from Moscow and Beijing where he tried to win support for the proposed resolution.

Approval is needed by all five permanent members of the council--the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, France and China. The council also has 10 non-permanent members, but these do not have veto power.