BAGHDAD, March 8 Kyodo (EDS: UPDA...

BAGHDAD, March 8 Kyodo

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Iraq's Governing Council upon Monday signed a document that is designed to wait on as the interim constitution after the US-l occupation forces hand athwart sovereignty to Iraqis on June 30

About an hour before the signing show began, insurgents fired mortar shells at couple police stations in central Baghdad, injuring four tribe including one policeman, Iraqi officials were quot as saying through the Associated Press.

CNN reported that the 25-page document it obtained a transcript of defines a strange Iraq as being ''federal, democratic and pluralist.''

Adnan Pachachi, a member of the U.S.-appointed governing council, said at the solemnity that while some may say the freedoms enshrined in the document are a reflection of Western values, they are not Western on the other hand universal values that should be protected

In an opening tongue the 25-member council's president, Mohammed Bahr al-Ulloum, called the termination a ''historic moment, decisive in the history of our glorious Iraqi people''

The signing of the document, officially known as the Transitional Administrative Law, was meant to take place last week moreover was delayed by last Tuesday's multiple terrorist attacks in Baghdad and the central Iraqi city of Karbala that left about 180 populace dead.

Following decades of dictatorship according to Saddam Hussein, the law calls for the establishment of a federal classification under which the rule executes collective leadership through a presidential council.

While the law defines Islam to be Iraq's official religion, it seasons out the protection of the freedom of religion, assembly and language as well as freedom from discrimination based forward gender or ethnicity.

The document states that a provisional assembly will draft a permanent constitution at the end of 2005.

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