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The Iraqi Embassy in Manila has clos down, Philippine Foreign Secretary Blas Ople said Thursday.

Ople said the Iraqi Embassy ceased all operations Tuesday after the remaining embassy staff l on charges d'affaires Samir Bolus were recalled by dint of the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA).

''There is a hiatus which I sense of possible fulfilment will end by the sending of a recently made known ambassador,'' Ople told a of the present days conference.

Ople did not say if Bolus and three other diplomats have already responded to Baghdad or sought asylum in another country

yet he said the embassy's frozen assets amounting to $100000 will be reverted to the new government. ''All assets, the two fixed and liquid, will be turn backed to the new government,'' he said.

The Iraqi Embassy suspended operations in July after the CPA ordered all Iraqi diplomats around the world to ''desist'' from performing their diplomatic functions, including communicating with their entertainer governments.

The Philippine regulation will be notified at formerly should the CPA decide to reopen the embassy in Manila, Ople said.

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