Iraq's first post-Saddam national political body will start naming a Cabinet next week and will send three or four of its own to the U.N. Security Council to formally claim their place as Iraq's rightful government, a spokesman for one of the groups represented on the council said Tuesday.
"The work to form a Cabinet will begin next week," Fawzi Hariri, a spokesman for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, told The Associated Press.
Hariri said the 25-member governing council will send three to four of its members, including one of three women members and at least one Kurdish representative, to New York as part of a U.N. delegation. Adnan Pachachi, a Sunni and former foreign minister and member of the council, is also likely to be part of the delegation, Hariri adde. According to him, details of the delegation were being ironed out in meetings Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) has said it considered the Iraqi Governing Council a first step toward the restoration of the country's sovereignty and
national independence in accordance with United Nations resolutions. In a statement on Monday, OIC Secretary General Dr. Abdelouahed Belkeziz expressed his hope that the progress of restoring power to the Iraqi people would continue so the country would be able to run its own affairs and called for the council to be provided with more powers. (Albawaba.com)
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