Before heading to the United States, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani announced that Iraq will call upon the United Nations to help it in the inquiry of Baghdad’s last month recent bombings and to lift sanctions off the country.
In response to a question over Iraq’s demand to establish a former tribunal, President Talabani told AFP that “the tribunal will be part of our discussions, because the August 19 attacks are considered to be war crimes and crimes against humanity. We will ask for the United Nations to help us.”
Kurdish regional vice president Kosrat Rasul affirmed that Iraq would call at the assembly for its war reparations to be cancelled and debts to be scrapped in addition to its removal from UN Charter Chapter VII.
Iraqi President left Al Sulaymaniyah International Airport on Tuesday morning for the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly 64th session meetings where he will deliver Iraq’s address.
President Talabani is scheduled to meet with a number of Presidents and senior officials participating in the meetings, a statement by Iraqi presidency said.
Talabani will attend as well the Socialist International Conference in New York in his quality of deputy head of the Socialist International, the statement added.
After attending the scheduled meetings and conference, Iraqi President will undergo a surgery in his left knee at the Mayo Clinic hospital, it noted.