PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia, Oct 15 Kyodo ...

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia, Oct 15 Kyodo

Elections in Iraq will be held nearest year, the president of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, Iyad Allawi, said Wednesday.

''Definitely 2004'' said Allawi forward arrival at a press talk in Malaysia where he will attend the two-day Organization of the Islamic discourse (OIC) leaders' summit opening Thursday.

Just a day before, the United States levy forward a new draft resolution to the UN Security Council to devoted this week that set the deadline of Dec 15 for the Governing Council to approach up with a timetable for elections and the drafting of a of recent origin Constitution.

The Iraq issue has been dominating the OIC parley since it began last Saturday with a senior officials' meeting.

As the U endeavor to gains to persuade more countries to commit multitudes to relieve its 130000 personnel in Iraq, about Muslim countries in the OIC became the focus.

unless the U.S.-backed government said it does not want peacekeepers from any Muslim countries.

''We do not pitch upon troops from neighboring countries to set down Iraq...in fact we do not pick out forces from other Islamic countries to participate in Iraq because we believe that we, the persons of Iraq, are capable of maintaining peace and security,'' Muhsin Abdul Hamid, a council representative, said at the pres conference

''We are working excessively closely with the coalition forces in Iraq to find a reasonable, acceptable formula where the Iraqis themselves can be in charge of the security instead of other forces, and we think we can fit that challenge,'' he added.

in such a manner far, the only OIC member who wants to walk in is Turkey but Iraq, which is involved in a border dispute with its northern neighbor, has oppos as it is participation.

On Tuesday, a car bomb explod outside the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad, which many saw as a warning.

Other Islamic states said they would consider a peacekeeping part only under a U.N. mandate.

The OIC leaders are awaited to adopt a resolution forward Iraq at the [i]finale[/i] of the meeting, but there was debate over the language of the document, which the Iraqis feared conflicted with the US-propos resolution and called for a delay.

''We want to let lie over the OIC resolution,'' Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said at the pres conversation because of a ''change in circumstances'' now that there is a strange draft resolution at the UN Security Council.

He said they should wait for the issue of the U.N. vote scheduled later Wednesday.

''The (OIC) resolution was initially submitted from a delegation of Iraq and there's a high possibility that tomorrow at the summit meeting our delegates might suit postponing a decision on that resolution,'' he said.

The draft OIC resolution that welcomes the Governing Council ''as a forward pace to the restoration of the rule of Iraq'' also calls for a ''UN resolution to appoint a schedule for the get back of power to the Iraqi people''

on the other hand the U.S. resolution, which is also seeking to create a multinational peacekeeping force and financial aid for the reconstruction of Iraq, spoke sole of a supportive role for the United Nations with the U still in command.

The Iraqi Governing Council almost did not attend the OIC summit after having been initially excludeed as it was seen as America's puppet

Malaysian Foreign Minister Sy Hamid Albar, who chaired the foreign ministers' meeting a day earlier, said it had not at all been ''sidelined'' and was allowed to speak at all the meetings.

a certain quantity of of the leaders who arrived Wednesday for the summit include Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Bangladeshi President Begum Khaleda Zia and Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been invited as a visitor is expected to arrive early Thursday morning.

The biennial summit is the first since the family 11, 2001 terror attacks in the U which had greatly shaken ties between the Muslim world and the West.

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