Iraq's Permanent Representative To The UN: Post-Defeat Of ISIS Requires Sustained Efforts And More Int'l Cooperation

Baghdad / NINA /- The permanent representative of Iraq to the United Nations, Ambassador Muhammad Hussein Bahr Al-Uloom, participated in the Security Council session held to discuss the latest briefing by the head of the United Nations investigation team to enhance accountability for crimes committed by ISIS (UNITAD) Karim Khan. According to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ambassador said that the post-defeat of ISIS militarily is considered a stage that requires vigorous and intensive efforts and more international cooperation in providing remedies for the devastation caused by ISIS terrorism, stressing “ensuring that those involved, supporters and financiers of terrorist operations are pursued through national legal mechanisms and international efforts aim to ensure these terrorist organizations would not appear again. ” Bahr Al-Uloom stressed the importance and necessity for Iraq to obtain the results of the investigations and evidence, which the investigation team collected throughout the previous period in Iraq, because the Iraqi people are the main victims of the actions and crimes of the terrorist organization ISIS in Iraq, and that the work of the (UNITAD) team is in accordance with full respect for the sovereignty of Iraq and its jurisdiction over the crimes committed on its territory and the rights of its citizens, praising the progress made in the team’s work and the high cooperation between (UNITAD) and the Iraqi government represented by the Coordination Committee that contributed to the support of the team’s work during the past years of its work. The ambassador added, "The Iraqi government is working to make the necessary legal preparations to use the evidence after receiving it from the international investigation team before the national courts, in order to enhance its legal and judicial capabilities, indicating that the first reading by the House of Representatives of the draft law of the Iraqi Criminal Court for the crimes of ISIS elements in preparation for its legislation which would ensure the use of evidence before the Iraqi judiciary. ”/ End