VN resolutie: highlights

[Hein van Meeteren]

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Wees niet vertoornd....Het zij me vergund  u de highlights door te geven van de op handen zijnde VK-US VN resolutie:

* The United Nations would endorse the formation of a "sovereign interim government of Iraq" that takes office by June 30. This government is being selected by U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, in consultation with U.S. officials.

* It would help organize a national conference that would select a consultative council to aid the new government and help organize elections, among other tasks.

* Direct elections would be held no later than Jan. 31, 2005, for a transitional national assembly, which would draft a permanent constitution.

* The resolution would reaffirm authorization of a U.S.-led multinational force that would have the authority to take "all necessary measures" to maintain peace and security.

* The mandate for the force would be reviewed but not terminated after a year, unless council members wanted that.

* The U.S. military command, Iraqi forces and the Iraqi government would make arrangements to enhance coordination but the text does not say Iraqi troops can refuse a U.S. order.

* The resolution foresees a separate force within the overall command to provide security for U.N. staff.

* A fund for oil and gas revenues, now controlled by the occupiers, would be handed over to Iraq. But an international advisory board would stay in place for a year to assure investors and donors expenditures were free of corruption.

* The resolution would curtail an existing U.N. arms embargo on Iraq by allowing importation of weapons by either the multinational force or the Iraqi government.

* It would ask U.N. members and international security organizations, such as NATO, to join the multinational force and provide aid to Iraq.

*It would ask all nations to crack down on the flow of funds and other resources to any groups or individuals that might carry out terrorist attacks in Iraq.

* The resolution is silent on the future of prisons that are ruin by foreign forces and on the interim constitution adopted earlier this year.

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