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Minister President Balkenende and Vice-premier Bos (PvdA) have been meeting most of the day to make amends and come with a single opinion on the conclusions of the Davids Iraq Commission Report. Balkenende has accepted the most important issue: the U.N. mandate was insufficient to take military action against the regime of Saddam Hussain. The International Law has been laid down by the Commission with legal heavyweights. This is a 180 degree turn-around to his response yesterday afternoon in a press conference. His apparent attack of major conclusions of the Report angered the members of parliament of the Labor Party. The coalition remains united and will look forward to the coming debate in Parliament with Balkenende and Cabinet members. A crisis has been avoided postponed.

Iraq war was illegal, Dutch panel rules