of the present day YORK, March 18 K...

of the present day YORK, March 18 Kyodo

The Iraqi Governing Council is formally requesting the United Nations for help in holding direct elections before the extreme point of January next year, a UN spokesman said Thursday.

The beg for was contained in the council's verbal expression Thursday to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, UN spokesman Fr Eckhard said.

The epistle came from Mohammed Bahr al-Ulloum, the president of the 25-member council and thanked the world carcass for sending a fact-finding mission l through Annan's special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi.

The epistle also welcomed ''U.N. consultation onward the broad national dialogue regarding the shape and sweep of the interim government'' according to Eckhard.

The UN chief also received a similar verbal expression from L. Paul Bremer the top U civilian administrator in Iraq who has in extent reiterated the U.S. policy of handing through sovereignty to the Iraqi folks on June 30.

The UN spokesman said Annan will convenient with Brahimi shortly to discuss the verbal expressions and ''a reply is likely to walk out by the end of today, or by way of tomorrow, to both letters.''

Eckhard acknowledged that the security situation in Iraq is not suitable as evidenced by a renewed series of car bomb attacks, and said the UN will evaluate the situation ''carefully'' before sending its staff back to Iraq.

Annan said Wednesday that the UN regards on ''the cooperation of everybody to work together to bring a modicum of stability to Iraq likewise that people can go about their lives.''

The unimpaired attacks came ahead of Friday's first anniversary of the US-l invasion of Iraq.

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