Washington ? After urgent talks with his top foreign policy team, President Bush decided Wednesday to return to the United Nations for a resolution seeking greater international involvement in Iraq, including more foreign troops and wider funding for reconstruction, U.S. officials said.

The Bush administration, which had resisted returning to the United Nations for a potentially contentious debate that might try to force the United States to cede partial control of Iraqi reconstruction, began talks with key allies Wednesday and is expected to begin circulating language for a draft resolution today at the Security Council in New York.

At the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte confirmed that the United States was working on a new document.

“We’re looking at the possibility of another resolution,” he said. “I think it’s going to be in terms of what are the challenges we face, and what further can the council do in order to face up to these challenges?”

In a strategy crafted by the State Department, the United States hopes to tap into global outrage over a devastating bombing at U.N. headquarters in Baghdad on Tuesday to win quick passage of a resolution providing more troops and financial assistance without diluting U.S. control of the coalition forces or the political transition, according to U.S. officials.

As FBI agents sifted through the rubble left by the powerful truck bomb, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan vowed Wednesday that the agency would not quit Iraq in the face of terrorism. He rushed to New York on Wednesday to meet with the 15-member U.N. Security Council to discuss security arrangements in Iraq.

“We will persevere,” Annan said at a news conference during a stopover in Stockholm. “We will continue. It is essential work. We will not be intimidated.”

Secretary of State Colin Powell will travel today to the United Nations for talks with Annan about the new resolution and the U.N. presence in Iraq.