UN Team Returns to Iraq

World | February 8, 2004, Sunday // 00:00

Amid continuing violence, UN experts have arrived in Baghdad to investigate whether Iraq is ready for elections to choose a post-occupation government, Aljazeera online edition informed on Sunday. In a statement read at UN headquarters a day earlier, the world body's secretary general, Kofi Annan, announced the arrival of his team in the Iraqi capital. Annan ordered the mission after US occupation forces failed to broker a compromise deal with the revered spiritual leader of the country's Shia majority, Grand Ayat Allah Ali al-Sistani, over its timetable for handing over power to the transitional government by 30 June.

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