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IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6-L - The UN Angle.

Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on June 1 urged the United Nations to help his transitional government write a constitution, which he described as "the most critical test for the future of our country". The government aims to draft the document by Aug. 15, leading to a referendum in October

and general elections in December. "As we have learned from the European experience", Zebari said, "a permanent constitution is unlikely to succeed if drafted behind closed doors".

That Zebari, a prominent member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), has formally asked the UN for help reflected a US decision to give the world organisation a key role in charting the future of Iraq which now is the most important piece of the American operation in oil diplomacy. This gives the UN angle special importance and, in symbolic terms, gives the US credit for internationalising a project conceived unilaterally in Washington. In turn, a successful UN role in helping draft Iraq's permanent constitution will improve the option which the US has chosen for the Iraqis (see Part 6-K, in ood5bIraqUSoptionsMay16-05).

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