For affirmative action to be possible and effective, data collection on ethnic backgrounds should be allowed, as is the case in the United States.

出于对平权措施的可行性和有效性的考虑，应该允许对种族背景进行数据收集，就像美国所做的那样。

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There may be some quiet warnings to Blair on the fringes that if he persists in his apparent readiness to back the United States in military action against Iraq he will be at odds with many of his fellow leaders.

CNN: European leaders

In the future, it should be the task of the United Nations to take action, it has the resources to act effectively and only the UN should have a mandate to use force.

BBC: Viewpoint: 'UN right to administer Iraq'

But Mr Blair would only achieve consensus in the Commons if he said any action would have to be specifically sanctioned by the United Nations, argued Mr Salmond.

BBC: UK condemns Iraqi oil embargo