Revised UN draft sets pullout date.

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Wed, 06-02-2004 - 11:25am

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/02/1086058918147.html


The United States would withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of 2005 under a new draft of a resolution before the United Nations Security Council.


The draft, which has been circulated in New York, also says the new Iraqi government would have the power to ask foreign troops to leave.


The changes were made after France and other nations expressed concern that the original resolution, which was presented a week ago, did not give Iraq "full sovereignty" because it did not include a date for the withdrawal of the US-led forces that deposed Saddam Hussein.


The new draft says elections should be held before January, and that US-led troops would stay to help keep the peace until December 2005. It does not describe the limits of Iraqi power over the foreign troops.


The draft was circulated hours after a new Iraqi government was named in Baghdad.


The new Foreign Minister, Hoshvar Zebari, quickly set off for New York to discuss the resolution with council members.


In his first public statement, the new President, Ghazi Yawar, urged the Security Council to pass a resolution that grants Iraq "full sovereignty", but those words do not appear in the draft.


Before being named President, Mr Yawar had criticised the original draft for giving Iraq limited control over US troops.


The UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has defended the world body's role in the creation of the interim Iraqi government. Critics say that the US and its appointed Iraqi Governing Council had more influence on the appointments than the UN.


Mr Annan said his special envoy in Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi, had spent four weeks compiling a list of possible candidates for office, and that "the new prime minister was on that list".


"I believe Mr Brahimi did as best as he could. He has had to make compromises to move the process ahead. It was never going to be easy - he knew that," Mr Annan said.


"And the government that he came up with ... also includes six women, which is quite a step forward. It has other new faces ... I think it would be wrong to say that the UN has allowed itself to be used."


In a statement to Iraqis, Mr Brahimi said: "I tried to work as one of you - a brother who believes in this country, a brother who loves this country, a brother who considers this country his, and looks forward to several visits in the future, not for work, but for meeting the brothers and the friends."








Text: Iraq draft resolution.........


 



The revised draft UN resolution on Iraq being circulated by the US and UK at the Security Council:



  • maps out the handover to a sovereign Iraqi government by 30 June


  • provides for a US-led multinational force, with authority to take all necessary measures for security, while setting a date for the end of its mandate


  • grants Iraq full control over its own natural resources while temporarily maintaining international control over its oil revenue fund

The full text of the resolution follows:..........


 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3768769.stm
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Wed, 06-02-2004 - 12:27pm

A new Iraqi interim government was named June 1, 2004, ahead of the handover of power from the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority. Under the plan, a prime minister will run an interim government of ministers, and a president will hold a largely ceremonial role. National elections are planned for January 2005.



View the complete list of ministers.



Prime minister: Dr. Iyad Allawi
• Born 1945 in Baghdad, Iraq
• Shiite Muslim
• Former Iraqi Governing Council member
• Former Baath Party member
• Neurologist and businessman who studied medicine in Baghdad and London, England
• Moved to Lebanon in 1971 and later to London after falling out of favor with Saddam Hussein
• Engaged in efforts against the former Iraqi regime, including a failed coup in 1996
• Former consultant to several U.N. programs


President: Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar
• 45, born in Mosul, Iraq
• Sunni Muslim
• Former Iraqi Governing Council member
• Leader of prominent Sunni tribe in northern Iraq
• Civil engineer who studied in Saudi Arabia and Washington
• Ran telecommunications company in Saudi Arabia after fleeing Iraq in the early 1990s



Deputy president: Ibrahim Jafari al-Eshaiker
• Born 1947 in Karbala, Iraq
• Shiite Muslim
• Former Iraqi Governing Council member
• Member of the Dawa movement in Iraq seeking to modernize religious institutions
• Moved to Iran in the 1980s and later to London after Saddam Hussein banned Dawa
• Earned a medical degree from Iraq's Mosul University


Deputy president: Rowsch Shaways
• Born 1947
• Non-Arab Kurd
• President of the Kurdistan National Assembly
• Former prime minister of the Kurdistan regional government, which was established after the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from the Kurdish region in 1991
• Left Iraq as a student and returned in 1975 to join the Kurdish rebellion
• Earned a doctorate in engineering in Germany


Foreign affairs minister: Hoshyar Zebari
• Born 1953 in Aqrah, Iraq
• Leader in the Kurdistan Democratic Party
• Member of the party's central committee and political bureau since 1979
• Party's representative in Europe and managed its international relations
• Earned a political science degree in Jordan and a masterÕs degree in sociology in Britain


Oil minister: Thamir Ghadbhan
• Born 1945 in Babil, Iraq
• Longtime Iraqi oil ministry official
• Detained and demoted by Saddam Hussein's regime for supporting democratic reforms
• Authored dozens of studies and reports about Iraq's oil fields
• Earned a bachelor's degree in geology and master's degree in petroleum reservoir engineering in Britain.


Defense minister: Hazem Shalan al-Khuzaei
• Born 1947 in Diwaniyah
• Powerful tribal sheik
• Governor of Diwaniyah since April 2003
• Was a banker in Iraq until 1985 when he was forced to leave because of opposition to Saddam Hussein's regime
• Managed a real estate firm while in exile in England


Interior minister: Falah Hassan al-Naqib
• Born 1956
• Governor of Salah ad-Din
• Former leader with the opposition group Iraqi National Movement
• Member of a prominent military family in Samarra
• Civil engineer trained in the United States


Finance minister: Adil Abdel-Mahdi
• Born 1942 in Baghdad, Iraq
• Economist
• Member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq
• Left for exile in France in 1969 after being stripped of his job
• Worked for several French think tanks and edited magazines in French and Arabic
• Earned graduate degrees in politics and economics in France

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