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Italy calls for speeding up transfer of power in Iraq
United Nations, Nov 17: Italy`s President called for the US-led coalition, the Iraqi governing council and the United Nations to help speed up the process of transferring sovereignty in Iraq to an Iraqi government.
United Nations, Nov 17: Italy's President called for the US-led coalition, the Iraqi governing council and the United Nations to help speed up the process of transferring
sovereignty in Iraq to an Iraqi government.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi held talks with UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday, one day after meeting
in Washington with US President George W Bush.
"I think that we have reached the conviction that we should accelerate our support for an immediate implementation" of the latest UN resolution on Iraq, Ciampi told reporters, standing alongside Annan.
"Only in this way, we can obtain the gradual transfer of sovereignty to a fully recognized and fully representative Iraqi government," Ciampi said.
About 2,300 Italian troops are helping in the reconstruction in Iraq. On Wednesday, 19 Italians were killed in a bomb attack at the headquarters of the Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police in the southern city of Nasiriyah, but the government has said its troops will remain.
A US-backed Security Council resolution asks the United Nations to play a role in the country's political transition from a dictatorship to a democracy "as circumstances permit." It calls on all 191 UN member states to contribute money and troops to a US-led multinational force to help rebuild and stabilize Iraq and speed its independence.
"I think that we have reached the conviction that we should accelerate our support for an immediate implementation" of the latest UN resolution on Iraq, Ciampi told reporters, standing alongside Annan.
"Only in this way, we can obtain the gradual transfer of sovereignty to a fully recognized and fully representative Iraqi government," Ciampi said.
About 2,300 Italian troops are helping in the reconstruction in Iraq. On Wednesday, 19 Italians were killed in a bomb attack at the headquarters of the Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police in the southern city of Nasiriyah, but the government has said its troops will remain.
A US-backed Security Council resolution asks the United Nations to play a role in the country's political transition from a dictatorship to a democracy "as circumstances permit." It calls on all 191 UN member states to contribute money and troops to a US-led multinational force to help rebuild and stabilize Iraq and speed its independence.
Bureau Report