Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari at the headquarters of the UN Security Council in New York

February 4, 2010 · Posted in NEWS
03/02/2010
Faris Omar
UN Security Council meets in mid-February to hear a report by the Mission of the United Nations to help Iraq (UNAMI) on the one hand, and another report by the representative of Iraq from the other side.

The meeting of the UN Security Council at the time of Iraq’s diplomatic actively working intensively to remove Iraq from Chapter VII, which put him in the introduction to its goals.

Iraq was included under the provisions of Chapter VII as a state which threatens world peace and international security after the invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

And imposed on Iraq since that time, broad sanctions and severe restrictions on the arm of its armed forces after the adventures of the former regime and the waste of Iraq’s resources and capabilities of scientists on projects that are not feasible for the production of chemical weapons, biological and nuclear weapons.

Officials expect the Iraqis to move while the UN Security Council meets in the sixteenth of February to close my oil for food program and weapons of mass destruction.

The Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Haj Hamoud, in an exclusive interview for Radio Free Iraq that Iraq was during the last period in constant contact with the five permanent members of the Security Council to ensure support.

Hammoud said that there were contracts signed in connection with the oil for food program to be decided by the compensation from the liable for compensation and bring down the cases which are not based on the support.

On the other hand was the lifting of restrictions imposed on Iraq in connection with the weapons of mass destruction requires approval by Congress of the additional protocol to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty before to confirm the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iraq implemented all its international obligations in this file.