Iraqi PM promises to fight corruption; two former ministers subpoenaed News
Iraqi PM promises to fight corruption; two former ministers subpoenaed

[JURIST] Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari [BBC profile] Wednesday promised to continue fighting corruption in Iraq's new government. He said "administrative corruption" was one of many challenges Iraq must face, and that the government has "rolled up its sleeves and taken measures" to prevent it, including establishing a telephone hotline for reports. Judge Radhi Hamza al-Radhi, the head of Iraq's Commission for Public Integrity [US State Dept. backgrounder], said that two former Iraqi ministers have been subpoenaed [AFP report; JURIST report on earlier arrest warrants] and former employment minister Leyla Abdel Hamid Latif has already been questioned in connection with financial corruption. No charges have been filed yet.

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The UN General Assembly approved UN Resolution Resolution 181 (II) on November 29, 1947, recommending that the British Mandate for Palestine be split into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The vote in the assembly was 33 for to 13 against, with 10 abstentions. The resolution sparked a war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in 1947 and a wider war after Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded the new State of Israel in 1948. Read Resolution 181 (II).

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