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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Envoy: Iraq’s New Leaders Must Keep Fighting Corruption

People shop at the main Shurja market in central Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. (AP)

The UN special envoy for Iraq urged the country’s new government Thursday to keep fighting corruption and move quickly on much-needed economic, fiscal and financial reforms.

Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert told the UN Security Council many other areas also need immediate government attention, among them ensuring human rights, resolving issues with the Kurdistan Regional Government, improving public services, addressing environmental challenges, and continuing to return Iraqis from camps and prisons in northeast Syria.

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