Turkish FM to attend UN Security Council meeting on Iraq

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Turkish FM to attend UN Security Council meeting on Iraq

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PUKmedia 2010-12-13 19:11:47

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu will attend a U.N. Security Council meeting Wednesday that has been convened to discuss progress in Iraq.

The meeting will be chaired by United States Vice President Joe Biden and attended by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The meeting will consider terminating trade restrictions on Iraq under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which were imposed in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Washington is seeking agreements on three draft resolutions; one is to lift trade sanctions imposed on Iraq to prevent achieving materials that could be used for chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. Other resolutions are for extending U.N. protection for a six-month period on Iraq's $800 million oil revenue from potential creditors and for closing the accounts for the oil-for-food aid program.

Iraq sought continued U.N. immunity for the Development Fund for Iraq, or DFI, which is set to expire Dec. 31, 2010. The DFI was established by the U.N. in 2003 to keep the proceeds of oil sales from Iraq and meet the country's humanitarian needs. The U.N. Security Council extended the fund’s immunity from creditors for a year in December 2009 and said then that it was the last time such protection would be granted. The United States and the United Kingdom resisted the requested extension of immunity, but a six-month period extension is expected due to the delay in forming a new Iraqi government.

“The negotiations on draft resolutions are still ongoing. I can say that the majority of the members are in agreement on them,” a Turkish Foreign Ministry official told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review on Monday.

Davutoğlu will travel to the U.S. on Tuesday morning, when he is expected to meet with Biden and the foreign ministers of the U.K. and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Turkey holds one of the nonpermanent seats allocated to the Western European and Others Group on the 15-member U.N. Security Council for the 2009-2010 term. Turkey will make a bid for another nonpermanent seat on the U.N. Security Council before 2020.

Source : Hürriyet Daily News website

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