IRAQ: IRAQIS WELCOME U.N. VOTE TO ADOPT A US - BRITISH RESOLUTION FORMALLY ENDING THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ ON JUNE 30
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IRAQ: IRAQIS WELCOME U.N. VOTE TO ADOPT A US - BRITISH RESOLUTION FORMALLY ENDING THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ ON JUNE 30
- Title: IRAQ: IRAQIS WELCOME U.N. VOTE TO ADOPT A US - BRITISH RESOLUTION FORMALLY ENDING THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ ON JUNE 30
- Date: 9th June 2004
- Summary: (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JUNE 9) (REUTERS) 1. TRAFFIC ON STREETS (2 SHOTS) 0.12 2. VARIOS OF IRAQI READING NEWSPAPER (3 SHOTS) 0.25 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) IRAQI LAITH AL-SHEIKH SAYING: "This Iraqi legitimate right for security, full sovereignty and to control its oil, we want an implementation, we want Iraqis to live new lives as was promised." 0.43 4. IRAQIS READING NEWSPAPERS 0.56 5. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) MUHSEN JAWAD SAYING: "There is some negative and some positive elements in the resolution. The positive thing is its recognition of Iraqi sovereignty after June 30. The problem in the resolution is that Iraq has no control on the international forces." 1.18 6. IRAQIS IN THE STREET (2 SHOTS) 1.35 7. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) RAED HASSAN SAYING: "This new resolution will help Iraqis to regain confidence in the Security Council because it's in our favour and in the favour of the new government." 1.45 8. LV: CARS IN THE STREET 1.51 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA6L25O1CP751PTAYC0DWJNAENC
- Story Text: Iraqis welcome U.N. vote to adopt a U.S.-British
resolution formally ending the occupation of Iraq on June
30, but few believe it will stop the daily bloodshed.
Iraqis reacted with mixed feelings on Wednesday
(June 9) to a United Nations Security Council vote on a
resolution regarding Iraq.
The resolution paves the way for elections by giving a
timetable of no later than January 2005 for a poll on a
transitional government. After a constitution is written, a
permanent government is to take office by January 31, 2006.
The measure puts Iraq in charge of its oil proceeds and
calls for the United Nations to help with elections,
writing of a constitution and many other tasks.
It also gives the Iraqi interim government the right to
order U.S. troops to leave at any time and makes clear the
mandate of the international force will expire by the end
of January 2006.
While some Iraqis said the resolution is in their
interest, others said the plan meant nothing, unless is was
implemented.
"This Iraqi legitimate right for security, full
sovereignty and to control its oil, we want an
implementation, we want Iraqis to live new lives as was
promised," said one Iraqi, Laith al-Sheikh.
Others said the resolution ensured Iraq's future
sovereignty.
"This new resolution will help Iraqis to regain
confidence in the Security Council because it's in our
favour and in the favour of the new government.," said Raed
Hassan.
"There is some negative and some positive elements in
the resolution. The positive thing is its recognition of
Iraqi sovereignty after June 30. The problem in the
resolution is that Iraq has no control on the international
forces," Muhsen Jawad said.
But despite widespread optimism, the daily violence
continued on Wednesday as guerrillas detonated car bombs in
two Iraqi cities that killed 13 Iraqis and one U.S. soldier
and wounded dozens.
Control of the 160,000 U.S.-led troops was the most
contentious issue in the resolution, which authorises a
multinational force under American command to "use all
necessary measures" to prevent violence. BAG/JM
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