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News on condition of anonymity, said one issue under discussion was whether Iraq’s 25-member Governing Council should be disbanded and replaced with a real provisional government with more sovereign powers. Officials said the administration was particularly concerned that the Governing Council would not meet a Dec. 15 deadline to set a timetable to draft a constitution and hold elections. Bremer has said he wants elections to be held by the end of 2004. A U.S. official told Reuters after the meeting that “abandoning the Iraqi Governing Council is unlikely,” but he acknowledged problems with the council and said Washington could modify the political structure to accelerate the transition to democracy, something long urged by European and U.N.