UN officials encourage Iraq to continue reforms and protect women’s rights.
UN authorities urged Iraq's government to move ahead with political and economic changes, as well as to continue talks with Kuwait about reparations for Kuwaitis who disappeared during the Iraqi invasion in 1990.
They also highlighted the country's human rights situation, particularly the rights of Iraqi women, and urged other nations in the region to refrain from violating Iraq's territories and sovereignty.
During a Security Council meeting to discuss Iraq, Jeanine Antoinette Plasschaert, the secretary-general's special representative for Iraq and head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, discussed the conclusions of her UN report on the implementation of Resolution 2631. Adopted by the council in 2022, it states that "the provision of advice, support, and assistance to the governm...