BAGHDAD, Nov 13 (NNN-NINA) – Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, special representative of the UN secretary-general for Iraq, said that, the United Nations will continue to reach out to all Iraqi parties, to achieve the reform, demanded by protesters.
“The United Nations continues to reach out to all parties, including demonstrators, syndicates and the Iraqi government, to achieve the real reform that the people are demanding,” Hennis-Plasschaert said, in the capital Baghdad, after her meeting with heads of syndicates and unions of different local activities.
“Our role is to help, advise and support achieving a change,” she told reporters.
Hennis-Plasschaert, also head of the UN Assistant Mission for Iraq, admitted that “the crisis of confidence between the citizens and the government … requires a lot of hard work” to solve.
She said, the UN mission in Iraq had issued a document earlier this month, to outline some of the steps and measures needed to implement the legitimate demands of the protesters.
The UN envoy said, she would present to the Iraqi parliament the results of her meetings with all factions of the Iraqi society, in order to discuss their proposals to get out of the current crisis in Iraq.– NNN-NINA
