United Nations ? In amendments to a U.S. draft resolution, France, Germany and Russia are urging a speedy transfer of power from the U.S.-led coalition to an interim Iraqi administration.

The amendments, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, demand more power for Iraqis and the United Nations in running the country.

The amendments were given to the United States ahead of a meeting called by Secretary General Kofi Annan to try to get the five veto-wielding permanent Security Council members to unite behind a plan to stabilize Iraq.

Foreign ministers of the five — the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France — are expected to attend the meeting Saturday in Geneva.

U.S. deputy ambassador James Cunningham said the Geneva meeting wouldn’t focus on the amendment text, but on what needed to be done to get the international community to come together “to get the job that we want done in Iraq.”

Secretary of State Colin Powell said the U.S. aim was “the ability to transfer sovereignty back to the Iraqi people and to do it in a responsible way.”

The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, told the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee on Wednesday the 15 EU nations were still “a long way from achieving consensus both among ourselves and with other members of the Security Council — but I do hope it will be possible to achieve some agreement.”

Two U.S. soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry regiment, 4th Infantry division in Tikrit, Iraq, watch over suspected Saddam loyalists after raids were conducted Wednesday morning. More than a dozen men were taken into custody and a large cache of weapons, explosives and homemade bomb detonators were found during the raid. At the United Nations, France, Germany and Russia are urging a swift transfer of power from the U.S.-led coalition to an Iraqi administration.

The U.S. draft resolution invites the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council to cooperate with the United Nations and U.S. officials in Baghdad to produce “a timetable and program for the drafting of a new constitution for Iraq and for the holding of democratic elections.”

But it contains no time frame of when this should happen, and it leaves the key decision in the hands of the Governing Council, which has taken months just to form a Cabinet. The United States believes the Iraqis must remain in charge of this process — but France, Germany and Russia want a much faster timetable.

The French-German amendments call for immediately “initiating under the auspices of the U.N. a new process leading … to the full restoration of Iraqi authority.”

They call for an interim Iraqi administration to take control of “all civilian areas, including control over natural resources and use of international assistance.”

As part of that process, the Security Council would endorse the Governing Council and Cabinet “as the trustees of Iraqi sovereignty until the processes leading to an elected and fully representative government are completed.”