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2003-07-22
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2003-07-22
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  1. “The contribution of the United Nations and its specialized agencies in that endeavour will be extremely important. The challenge that is facing us is enormous. The responsibilities of the Governing Council are many, difficult and diverse. The important responsibility borne by the members of the Council cannot be overstated. We need the Iraqi people to fully support us. We will have to demonstrate to them our credibility and merit if we are to lead them in this historic process. Speaking personally, I would like to say that I am optimistic. The Iraqi people have demonstrated their ability to coexist in harmony and tolerance, and we will make every possible effort to overcome the difficulties that we face. We are counting on the support of the Council in restoring Iraq to its proper position within the international community.”

    2003-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4791 (2003) · source

  2. “With regard to security, the Council has decided to employ at least 30,000 Iraqi police officers, to train them, to provide them with equipment and to pay them adequately. The Council has decided also to establish, as expeditiously as possible, at least 1,500 schools and clinics throughout Iraq. Also in the context of the economy, all salaries, including back pay, will be paid, and we will start a programme to reabsorb more than 200,000 demobilized soldiers into the civil society employment sector, especially in the public works and construction sector. The Governing Council will examine the budget with a View to satisfying the needs of the population, reform the currency system and issue a new currency in order to provide citizens with purchasing power.”

    2003-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4791 (2003) · source

  3. “Iraq's national economy must be revived, and projects must be undertaken that provide jobs for the unemployed; alleviate the poverty of a large segment of society, a large percentage of which is still living below the poverty line; promote justice and fairness in the distribution of national wealth; and consolidate political freedom as the economic situation improves. We will work to ensure that every individual benefits from Iraq's tremendous national assets through the creation of a special fund, and we will ensure compensation for victims of forced displacement and for people whose property was confiscated by the bloodthirsty regime of Saddam Hussain. The Governing Council has taken several decisions that will enable it to begin implementing this ambitious programme.”

    2003-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4791 (2003) · source

  4. “The judiciary system, which was destroyed by the previous regime, should be reformed. Fifthly, special tribunals should be constituted in order to bring to justice those who committed criminal acts under the former Iraqi regime, so that they will stand trial for their humanitarian crimes against the Iraqi people. Such tribunals will prosecute accused criminals. We have asked a special group of Council members to present proposals regarding the formation of these special tribunals.”

    2003-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4791 (2003) · source

  5. “There is no doubt in my mind that the United Nations and its specialized agencies will have an important and vital role to play in all these areas. Thirdly, one of the primary functions of the Governing Council is to ensure security and stability and to establish institutions that can rebuild the national police and the national army and enable them to preserve stability and security in Iraq. The police and the army should be used to eliminate those destructive elements and saboteurs who continue to impede the national development process and to undermine the interests of the civilian population. Fourthly, there should be a re-examination of the legislation enacted by the previous regime - legislation that enabled it to tighten its control over the country.”

    2003-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4791 (2003) · source

  6. “First, there is a need to appoint ministers, to fill vacancies in Government agencies and ministries, and to appoint competent personnel who were not implicated in any crimes committed by the previous regime. Secondly, Iraqi embassies abroad must be reopened so that they can carry out their regular functions. Representatives of foreign Governments must be received, and Iraqi representatives appointed to international organizations, first and foremost to the United Nations. Iraq will then work to improve relations with neighbouring Arab countries, its other neighbours and the international community at large. Iraq will require tremendous assistance in all areas in order to rebuild its economy, modernize its industrial sector, reform its educational system, improve its sanitation services and provide basic necessities to all its citizens.”

    2003-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4791 (2003) · source

  7. “The Constitution, much-awaited by the Iraqi people, will put in place a democratic, pluralistic and federal system that safeguards people's basic rights; consolidates the rule of law in an independent judiciary system; ensures the peaceful handover of power through free elections; places the armed forces under the authority of the elected administration; and gives women full rights on the basis of equality. In brief, we look forward to the creation of a civil society that believes in personal freedom as a premise for governance and rejects totalitarian systems, which have brought only misery and destruction to our people. Let me touch on some of the pressing issues to be addressed by the interim Governing Council. This list, however, is not exhaustive.”

    2003-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4791 (2003) · source

  8. “The Governing Council will prepare for that conference by determining the best way to ensure the participation of representatives and to take the necessary legislative action as well as other measures to facilitate its operations, including in the areas of electoral law, population census, electoral register, organization of political parties and other questions relating to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. The United Nations, given its expertise and experience, could help us to draw up this legislation.”

    2003-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4791 (2003) · source

  9. “This flexibility in the scope of the resolution allowed a certain latitude for expansion of the powers of the Governing Council so that all aspects of government could be covered. All of our proposals in this regard have been fully responded to. Our primary goal, which we will continue to bear in mind, is to shorten the duration of the interim administration period and put together an elected Government under a constitution to be endorsed by the population in free elections. The elections should be open to all, and the people should be able to express their opinions freely. The draft Constitution will be examined by a constitutional congress representing all political, social and religious groups.”

    2003-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4791 (2003) · source

  10. “The Governing Council - which represents the full spectrum of Iraqi society and whose members have been chosen as a result of painstaking and extensive consultations among Iraqi personalities of various religious, ethnic and political affiliations - was assisted, during the intensive negotiations that preceded the formation of the Council, by representatives of the Coalition Provisional Authority and by the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, in keeping with operative paragraph 9 of resolution 1483 (2003). We wish to place on record our sincere gratitude to all of them for their efforts. Resolution 1483 (2003) did not set out in a clear and precise manner the functions of the interim administration.”

    2003-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4791 (2003) · source

  11. “The Iraqi people consider our participation in this meeting to be clear and explicit recognition of Iraq's sovereignty, which the Council emphasized in the second preambular paragraph of its resolution 1483 (2003). The Governing Council was established as the embodiment of the nation's determination to preserve Iraq's sovereignty, safeguard its unity and territorial integrity, achieve a better future for its people and reconstruct its social fabric, following the disintegration of all values and social cohesiveness and the undermining of national unity in that dark era.”

    2003-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4791 (2003) · source

  12. “Our homeland has rid itself of the oppressive tyrannical regime that oppressed our people for three decades, usurped our freedom, eroded our dignity and exercised the worst forms of oppression, as demonstrated by the mass graves now being discovered across the country. Despite their ongoing suffering, frustration and oppression due to current security and living conditions, which have not improved as quickly as we had hoped, the people of Iraq have finally had a taste of the freedom that had been denied them for so many decades. The Iraqi people will never return to a society based on fear and injustice. Iraqi citizens can now express their views and articulate their aspirations freely. A State marked by the intelligence services, mandatory arrests and random executions has ended, never to return.”

    2003-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4791 (2003) · source

  13. “At the outset, I wish to express deep gratitude to the Council for having invited us to participate in this historic meeting. My special thanks go to the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, and to his Special Representative for Iraq, Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, and their colleagues for their efforts regarding the situation in Iraq and the country's future. We shall take into account their valuable remarks and their constructive proposals. It is indeed a great pleasure and honour for me and for my two colleagues, Ms. Aqeela al-Hashemi and Mr. Ahmad Chalabi, to appear before the Security Council on behalf of Iraq and the interim Governing Council, of which we have the honour of being members.”

    2003-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4791 (2003) · source