novel YORK, Feb. 25 Kyodo UN Secr...

novel YORK, Feb. 25 Kyodo

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's acting special minister for Iraq arrived in Baghdad upon Wednesday to assess reconstruction and humanitarian issues, a UN spokesman said.

Acting special emissary Ros Mountain will talk these issues with representatives of the US-l Coalition Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Governing Council during his stay, UN spokesman Fr Eckhard said.

Mountain flew into the Iraqi capital ahead of an upcoming meeting in Abu Dhabi where delegates will launch the International Reconstruction Facility for Iraq to help rebuild Iraq's economy and infrastructure via shoot forwards administered by U.N. agencies and the World Bank.

In answer to a question about subsequent time United Nations involvement in Iraq, Eckhard said the UN is awaiting the Iraqi Governing Council's answer to a recent fact-finding mission's report.

Acting in succession the mission's findings, Annan said it is not feasible to restrain elections before the proposed June 30 transfer of power to the Iraqis according to the U.S.-led occupation authority.

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