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The letter, from the governments of United Kingdom , Spain , Italy , Portugal , Denmark , Poland , Hungary and the Czech Republic , accused Saddam Hussein of continuing to develop Weapons Of Mass Destruction , and urged the UN Security Council to act against that threat. The statement's content was uncontroversial, saying that Saddam Hussein should not be allowed to violate U.N. resolutions, but the exclusion of ten of EU's then fifteen members was interpreted as a signal of deep division — and the difficulty of implementing the EU's Common Foreign And Security Policy . The letter was on 6 February followed by the Vilnius Letter , a more outspoken declaration of support for the position of the United States from the Vilnius Group composed of Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Slovakia , Slovenia , Croatia , Albania , Republic Of Macedonia , Romania , and the then-member of the UN Security Council , Bulgaria . EXTERNAL LINK |