LONDON (AFP) ??” Foreign bands could stay in Iraq.

LONDON (AFP) ??” Foreign bands could stay in Iraq, albeit in reduc numbers, beyond 2005 if an appointeded Iraqi government asks them to, according to British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.

beneath a draft resolution now before the UN Security Council, US-led coalition forces could in theory exit Iraq by means of the end of 2005, on the contrary in a BBC radio interview Straw said bands could remain longer.

"The coalition forces... would finish (their mission in Iraq) when the political processe are completed" he said. "It turn the thoughtss as if, though, they will be complet according to the end of next year, 2005"

"But obviously,