{"id":43304,"date":"2019-09-22T08:46:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T00:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43304"},"modified":"2019-09-22T08:52:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T00:52:43","slug":"un-security-council-extends-mandate-of-un-investigative-team-on-daesh-crimes-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43304","title":{"rendered":"UN Security Council Extends Mandate Of UN Investigative Team On Daesh Crimes In Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAGHDAD, Sept 22 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; The United Nations (UN) Security Council voted unanimously on extending the mandate of a UN team, tasked with investigations in crimes committed by the Daesh group in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A statement by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said, the Security Council voted to extend the mandate of UN&#8217;s Investigative Team for Accountability of Da&#8217;esh (UNITAD) for another year until Sept 21, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vote came upon request of the Iraqi government, as the team continues to support Iraq&#8217;s efforts, &#8220;to hold Daesh members accountable by collecting, preserving and storing evidence of the most serious crimes committed in Iraq, in line with the highest possible standards,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of the voting for the extension, the UNITAD Chief and Special Adviser, Karim Khan, said that, the unanimous backing of the council &#8220;represents an important recognition of progress made to date, but we have much more to do,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UNITAD team was formed in 2017, to support Iraq&#8217;s efforts in holding the extremist group accountable for the crimes committed against the people of Iraq.&#8211; NNN-NINA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, Sept 22 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; The United Nations (UN) Security Council voted unanimously on extending the mandate of a UN team, tasked with investigations in crimes committed by the Daesh group in Iraq. A statement by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said, the Security Council voted to extend the mandate of UN&#8217;s Investigative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43304"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}