Iraq requests Islamic draft resolution scrapped: Egypt

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PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia, (AFP) - The US-backed Iraqi leadership has requested the withdrawal of a draft resolution at the Islamic summit which demands a timetable for the end of the occupation of Iraq (news - web sites), an Egyptian minister said.


"The Iraqi side has said it prefers that no resolution is adopted," said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher, before the opening of the two-day summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Malaysia.


He added that the delegation of the Iraqi transitional Governing Council requested that "a statement from the summit or from the presidency" of the OIC replace the planned resolution.


Such a statement was likely to be adopted, he said.


"There is no disagreement on its content: it states that all of us, including the respresentative of the Iraqi government, want to restore the independence and sovereignty of Iraq and the withdrawal of the forces occupation as soon as possible."

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