Iraq’s Consultants Commission discuss joint cooperation with UN

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Consultants Commission in Iraqi Prime Minister’s Office has held a meeting with the Assistant UN Secretay-General and Chairwomen of the Regional Office of the Arab States in the UN Development Program on Monday, discussing means for joint cooperation and revising the UN Program in Iraq. “The Commission has held a meeting with the Assistant UN Secretary-General & Chairwoman of the Regional Office of the Arab States in the UN Development Program, to discuss means for joint cooperation and the revise the UN Program in Iraq, with the presence of the Assistant Special UN Secretary-General’s REpresentative and the Director of Iraq‘s Office in the UN Program, along with a number of experts and Consultants in the Commission,” a Commission’s statement reported. The Chairman of the Consultants Commission, Thamer al-Ghadban, stated on this occasion that “the meeting had discussed the UN Program in Iraq and the horizons of future cooperation, stemming from the priorities of the Iraqi government, along with the discussion of the achievements by the Cooperation programmes with the United Nations, steered by the Commission in differentfields. On her Part, the UN Secretary-General’s Assistant, Ama al-Alim, expressed “the Program’s readiness to support the Iraqi government,” highly appreciating the continuous cooperation with the United Nations and its ambitions for further cooperation, based on the principle of national partnership and property, for the UN aids, with the confirmation on the broad presence of the United Nations in this respect. SKH (ST)128