Geneva – The minister of the Foreign Affairs of Timor said Wednesday that a "better solution" for the problem of Iraq "would be that the United States gave longer to the inspectors from the UN".

In statements to the Agency Lusa, Ramos Horta maintained that "himself Saddam Hussein will have some humility and some feeling for his country he should leave to avoid a war and he remove the arguments to the Americans to will attack".

The minister said do not he perceive as he is that Saddam Hussein, that he has 12 old years to fulfill the resolution of the United Nations and 4 more months to fulfill the resolution 1441 of Security Council, knowing the dangers to that exposed his country and the Iraqi population, he still did not he deliver everybody the information regarding the solid weapons of destruction.

"When a leader of State does not fulfill the his obligations, does not accept that himself invertam responsibilities. The responsibility of this situation is of the Iraq", said Ramos Horta.

Despite of defend that the United States should give longer to the observers, the minister recollected that noutras situations already functioned without the guarantee of the Security Council.

"In Rwanda, the Security Council had not intervened, what was an immoral act, because they permitted hundreds of thousand of persons to die," he said.

"It is a tragedy. Even if the loss of civilian lives is minimal as promised by the Americans, is always a tragedy, last some days or weeks" referred by the way from the expected American intervention in Iraq.

Ramos Horta affirmed, however, expect that the worries of the world do not come back everybody for that region and that "the reconstruction of the Iraq do not have impact in the programs of the others countries", as Timor, Cambodja, Afghanistan or the Africa.

Ramos Horta said he still expected that "the war finishes quick and a democratic regime will be built in the Iraq", recollecting that in the Afghanistan "had very positive changes".

The civil society is for the foriegn minister of Timor the new element of this conflict.

The foreign minister of Timor considered it still possible and "necessary" the reform from the UN, defending that the United States should do efforts in that sense.

Ramos Horta affirmed still discord personally "that continues with the five permanent countries in the Security Council since to II World War", defending still the elimination of the right of veto and the approval of the decisions by a majority of two thirds.

Ramos Horta visits Portugal from 31 from March to 6 of April. Before, the Ramos Horta, that cancelled a visit to the Kuwait due to the threat of war in the region, will go to Rome to the Vatican.