NEW YORK, March 16: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday that US did not need a second UN resolution to go to war against Iraq and reiterated that the United States believes it already has the legal authority it needs for war.

As the US President Bush headed to an emergency summit in the Azores, Powell said he did not expect a new proposal to emerge from the 11th-hour diplomatic review.

Appearing on ABC news Programme “This Week” Powell did not say whether the United States would withdraw the second resolution now pending before UN Security Council, which has failed to garner support and forced the extraordinary weekend conference at a US airbase in Portugal’s Azores Islands.

Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Munir Akram who appeared on the ABC news Programme also said in order to reach a compromise in the UN Security Council more time was needed. But Powell rejected that proposal outright.