Iraq to call on UN to respect its sovereignty

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi Foreign Ministry’s Undersecretary, Lubeid Abbawi, has said on Saturday that his government’s delegation scheduled to attend the United Nation’s meetings in New York would call on the International Organization to “respect its sovereignty and support its exclusion from Charter 7.”   “Iraq shall attend the UN General Assembly’s meetings in its 66th session in New York, in a delegation to be led by President Jalal Talabani, to be accompanied by Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zibary,” Abbawi told IraqiNews.com news agency.   He said that President Talabani would deliver a speech in the meeting, to cover the achievements and missions facing the political process in Iraq and its foreign relations, adding that “Iraq shall call on the world for further solidarity with it in the economic development, respect of borders and sovereignty, as well as supporting its efforts to be exempted from Article 7.”   The UN’s General Assembly holds a session in September every year, attended by all its 192 member-states of the World Organization, with each state delivering its speech in the session, in order to raise its recommendations to the other UN bodies, each according its specialization, such as the Security Council and the International Court of Justice, etc.   SKH (TI)/SR 713