Published on Wednesday, September 26 / September 2012 08:23
BAGHDAD / obelisk: Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Wednesday, the United Kingdom to help Iraq to emerge from Chapter VII of the UN Charter.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement obtained by “obelisk” a copy of it, that “Zebari met, at the UN headquarters in New York City, British Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jackets Bert The two sides discussed ways to remove Iraq from Chapter VII of the UN Charter.”
The statement added that “Zebari called on Britain to stand beside Iraq in these endeavors after taking several steps on the road to meet its international obligations.”
The statement pointed out that “the meeting also dealt with the existing relations of cooperation between the two countries, and in particular trade and economic relations and the search for a mechanism by which to develop this cooperation to take wider forms.”
It is noteworthy that Iraq is taking part in the session of the 67-Fri-General of the United Nations, in New York City, U.S., with a delegation headed by Vice President Khudair Khuzaie and includes parliamentary figures and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.
Iraq has been under since 1990 Chapter VII of the UN Charter, which provides for the imposition of sanctions by the following occupation of Kuwait in August of the same year, and under Chapter mentioned right for the international community to use force against Iraq as a threat to international security, as well as freezing of large amounts of its assets financial in international banks to compensate those affected by the invasion of Kuwait.
