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May 14, 2011

United Nations calls on the Government of Iraq to the completion of the pending resolutions and activating the principle of participation

Alsumaria News / Baghdad

Invited the United Nations, Saturday, the Iraqi government to accomplish the decisions have been pending since its composition and promote the principle of national participation, while the confirmed support "Iraq's partners" for the Iraqi government for the return of some half million displaced people inside Iraq and hundreds of thousands of neighboring countries, was considered a failure in the return of the displaced will undermine the economic recovery and stability and national reconciliation.

The representative of the United Nations Mission in Iraq, Ad Melkert at a seminar held by the advisers in the Office of the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and attended "Alsumaria News", that "there can be no sustainable development without the restoration of the most basic levels of security, which requires that government play a leading role based on the political commitment has broad support, "calling to" the need for attention and encouragement to complete the pending decisions since the formation of the government as a condition essential and urgent to build confidence in the efficiency of the government."

He stressed Mlkrt the need to "focus on strengthening the government based on participation and development of the rule of law in the first place and a strong legal framework to protect human rights and the performance of state regulatory functions and provide services to the Iraqi people in general and provide employment opportunities to them," he said, adding that "Iraq has drawn up plans for five years start of the year 2010 up to 2015 to improve the performance of the government and the building of the institutions, and lay the foundations for the advancement of economic reality, with international assistance by the World Bank make it into the international mainstream economy."

The Melkrt that "there are new regulations for the development of works by Iraq with the assistance of donor countries and governments of the international community," asserting that "Iraq's partners stand in this transitional period is fully prepared to support the Iraqi government in addressing issues of protection and return and reintegration of more than 1.5 million internally displaced and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, who have taken refuge in neighboring countries."

He Melkert that "failure to address these issues will undermine any national effort to achieve economic recovery and stability and national reconciliation," adding that "Iraq has the achievements of the very high despite the security situation, which managed the Iraqi government secured through the development of many of the good steps to improve and reduce the number of casualties."

He expressed the UN representative in Iraq for "respect and gratitude and appreciation of the United Nations of those achievements made by the Iraqi government."

The head of Iraq's Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani, in September 2010, an initiative on resolving the political crisis in Iraq include the formation of a committee of between eight and twelve representatives of the political blocs to begin talks to form a new government and work to resolve outstanding differences, and convening meetings of the expanded for the leaders to resolve the issue of the three presidencies .

And the granting of the Iraqi parliament in its meeting held on 21 December last, the confidence of the Government of incomplete headed by Nuri al-Maliki.

The number of ministries that voted in by the 38 Ministry of nine ministries, including a proxy of the Ministry of Interior, Defense and National Security, which was entrusted to the Prime Minister.

The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called, today, at the seminar on donor countries to continue to provide support to Iraq until the completion of the process of construction and reconstruction, stressing that Iraq is in need of many to return to international status, while pointing out that the resources of oil and gas sector is not enough for the age of infrastructure.

The Ministry of Displacement and Migration of Iraq has confirmed in a statement late last year that the latest statistical report to the Ministry and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees indicate the presence of 206 thousand Iraqis in Syria alone, as revealed to the Committee on Migration and Displacement in the House of Representatives, last April, the number of the Iraqi community in in Syria is more than 140 thousand people, calling some of the ministries to cooperate with the Ministry of Displacement and Migration to improve their conditions in various areas.