Tuesday, October 10, 2006
International Compact with Iraq holds 2nd meeting
Reconstruction
On Monday, 9 October, the Preparatory Group for the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) held its second meeting at UNAMI’s office in Baghdad. Co-chaired by Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Barham Saleh and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Iraq Ashraf Qazi, the meeting was also attended by a high level delegation of the Iraqi Government including the Minister of Finance, Minister of Planning, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, advisors to the Vice President, advisors to the Prime Ministers, the Government Spokesman and the Baghdad representatives of the ICI Preparatory Group member-states (EC, US, UK, Italy, South Korea, Germany, France, Japan.) The meeting was also attended via video-link by the EU presidency, World Bank, UN HQ in New York, the Arab Fund and the Islamic Development Bank.
The meeting discussed progress made thus far, and the upcoming steps to ensure success of the ICI. These steps will include, among others, expanding and reviewing the ICI draft to reflect comments by Iraqi officials and donors. Outcomes of the first round of Sector Working Groups and the second iteration of the ICI Document as updated will be presented to the Preparatory Group Members at the next PG meeting to be held on Oct 19 in Baghdad.
On Monday, 9 October, the Preparatory Group for the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) held its second meeting at UNAMI’s office in Baghdad. Co-chaired by Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Barham Saleh and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Iraq Ashraf Qazi, the meeting was also attended by a high level delegation of the Iraqi Government including the Minister of Finance, Minister of Planning, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, advisors to the Vice President, advisors to the Prime Ministers, the Government Spokesman and the Baghdad representatives of the ICI Preparatory Group member-states (EC, US, UK, Italy, South Korea, Germany, France, Japan.) The meeting was also attended via video-link by the EU presidency, World Bank, UN HQ in New York, the Arab Fund and the Islamic Development Bank.
The meeting discussed progress made thus far, and the upcoming steps to ensure success of the ICI. These steps will include, among others, expanding and reviewing the ICI draft to reflect comments by Iraqi officials and donors. Outcomes of the first round of Sector Working Groups and the second iteration of the ICI Document as updated will be presented to the Preparatory Group Members at the next PG meeting to be held on Oct 19 in Baghdad.