Muslim states call for political independance for Iraq

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Muslim states call for political independence for Iraq

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ISTANBUL (AFP) - Ministers from the world's Muslim countries insisted on the need for full sovereignty and political independence in Iraq (news - web sites), just two weeks before the US-led occupation forces are due to hand over to an interim government.


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In a final statement foreign ministers and delegation heads from the 57 countries of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) expressed their support for "the process in which the Iraqis will assume their sovereignty."


But they added: "The conference affirmed its firm conviction of the need to safeguard Iraq's sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence," the statement released at the end of a three-day conference in Istanbul.


It said the OIC was profoundly convinced also of the need for Iraq to "ruled by its own people through a broad-based, inclusive and fully representative government of Iraq in conformity with a constitution accepted by the Iraqi people."