Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fuad Hussein, confirmed today, Wednesday, that the competent judicial and governmental authorities in Iraq are looking forward to receiving all the evidence collected by the international team to enhance accountability for the crimes committed by the terrorist organization ISIS in Iraq in 2014.
A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that Hussein received, today, Wednesday, in his office at the Ministry’s headquarters, the Acting Special Adviser, Head of the United Nations Investigation Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by the ISIS terrorist organization (UNITAD), Ana Piero Llobis.
During the meeting, according to the statement, the measures taken by the investigation team to enhance accountability for crimes committed by the terrorist organization ISIS were reviewed, with the aim of ending its presence in Iraq in an orderly manner by 17 of next September, in accordance with Security Council Resolution No. 2697 (2023).
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e Minister confirmed, according to the statement, that the competent judicial and governmental authorities in Iraq look forward to receiving all the evidence, materials and analyzes collected by the international team to enhance accountability for the crimes committed by the terrorist organization during its occupation of a number of areas of Iraq in 2014.
For her part, Piero Llopis gave a briefing in which she explained that the team’s main actions at this stage include completing the archiving and documentation of the evidence, materials and analyzes in the team’s possession, for the purpose of handing them over to the competent Iraqi authorities.
She pointed out that the UN team, over the past few months, returned much of the evidence and documents it obtained to the competent Iraqi authorities, in accordance with Security Council Resolutions 2379 (2017) and 2697 (2023) and the methods of work of the United Nations approved in this field.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency