Foreign Minister: Iraq has fulfilled its obligations regarding the remaining oil for food program

Foreign Minister: Iraq has fulfilled its obligations regarding the remaining oil for food program
2010-03-17 17:37:00 2010-03-17 17:37:00



BAGHDAD (Iba) ... Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari that "the Iraqi government will be a message before the end of this month to the Security Council to confirm Iraq's fulfillment of its obligations over the remaining oil for food program after the end of the issue of contracts remaining to this controversial program."


And the transfer of a Foreign Ministry statement received by the independent press (Iba) and a copy of it during a meeting with Zebari told the Russian ambassador in Baghdad Valeran Xu faen "he discussed the growing bilateral relations between Iraq and Russia were also discussed Iraq's tireless diplomatic efforts to get Iraq out of the provisions of Chapter VII of the review and scored, tangible progress in the field of disarmament and weapons of mass destruction and praised the International Atomic Energy Agency Iraq's cooperation as a prelude to his release from the provisions of this item


The statement said "The ambassador expressed Russia's support for the democratic experience in ELPLA D and congratulations of his government successfully introduced general election." ( النهاية ) / ع /.. (End) / p / ..

Political first: the end of the month .. the government send a letter to the Security Council to close the program file «Oil for Food»




After achieving success in the disposal of international sanctions
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Foreign Ministry announced it has achieved success as part of its tireless efforts to end the restrictions imposed on Iraq under Security Council resolutions adopted under chapter VII related to disarmament, at a time when the government sent a letter to the Security Council to close the program file «Oil for Food».


Foreign Ministry statement said that «In the light of letters sent by Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari in this regard to the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, Yukiya Amano, who sent a letter last week to UN Secretary-General of the United Nations and member states of the Security Council, which confirmed that the agency has received excellent cooperation from Iraq in the implementation of its agreements under the comprehensive safeguards, which allowed the agency to do its activities effectively and efficiently, and Iraq pledged to the provisional implementation of the Additional Protocol pending its entry into force, is the latest example of this cooperation ».


The statement added that« this letter came in the light of the efforts made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to end the restrictions imposed on Iraq since 1991 under Chapter VII, to return and occupy its international and consistent with its role in the international arena ».


In the meantime, research and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari met Valeran Xu faen Ambassador of Russia in Iraq tireless diplomatic efforts to get Iraq out of the provisions of Chapter VII. and to examine Zebari during a meeting in Baghdad yesterday faen, the growing bilateral relations between Iraq and Russia, also discussed the strenuous diplomatic efforts to get Iraq out of the provisions of Chapter VII, and review the progress made in the area of disarmament and weapons of mass destruction and end the issue of the remaining contracts and contentious for the oil-for-food program.


Zebari said, according to another statement of the ministry, said the government will be a message before the end of the month to the Security Council to confirm Iraq's fulfillment of its obligations remaining about this program ». For his part, the Russian ambassador for Moscow's support for the democratic experience in the country in advance congratulations of his government's successful general election.

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