Byline: RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN Washington Post -
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has given a report to members of the U.N. Security Council urging them to endorse the new Governing Council created by the U.S.-led occupation authority in Iraq, calling it ``a broadly representative partner with whom the United Nations and the international community at large can engage.''
Annan's recommendation, which was delivered to Security Council members Friday but is not to be released to the public until today, is an important show of support for the Governing Council, a 25-member body whose members were selected by the occupation authority to assume responsibility for numerous day-to-day tasks.
Many Iraqis, including an estimated 10,000 people who turned out to protest in the city of Najaf on Sunday, have dismissed the council's members as American toadies, and some of Iraq's …
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