Progress.

U.N. Security Council members yesterday embraced a delegation from Iraq's new Governing Council, a step toward international legitimacy, but did not name it the successor to Saddam Hussein's government.

The three-member delegation from the Governing Council made its debut at the United Nations yesterday, nine days after the U.S. administrator of Iraq appointed the council's 25 members.

Council spokesman Adnan Pachachi, a foreign minister before Saddam took power, pledged his country would never return to totalitarianism.