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Sat 11 Nov 2002Sunlight in the end as clouds of difference dissolveAfter weeks of wrangling, they all agreed in the end. Conor O'Clery was at the Security Council for yesterday's momentous vote on IraqAt 10.15 yesterday morning, Chinese ambassador Zhang Yishan, taking his turn as president of the UN Security Council, gently tapped the horseshoe table with a mallet. The other 14 nation representatives sat down, with diplomats crowded into seats behind them.