ROME (AFP) ??” President George W Bush named John Danforth.

ROME (AFP) ??” President George W Bush named John Danforth, a former senator and peace plenipotentiary to Sudan, to the first note of the scale post of US ambassador to the United Nations.

He will replace John Negroponte who is to become the first US ambassador to the post-June 30 Iraq, in charge of the biggest US embassy in the world.

Danforth, 67 may have to take up a elucidation role in the continuing US battle to certain international support for its campaign in Iraq.

The United States is generally trying to get the UN Security Council to pass a modern resolution that would smooth the way for the June 30 handover of power by means of the US-led coalition to an interim Iraqi conduct

Relations between the Bush administration and the United Nations were strained on last year's decision to launch an invasion of Iraq.

The United States and Britain, which carried on the outside ...