UN Security Council resolution 1546

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The Resolution 1546 of the UN Security Council ( resolution on Iraq ) to the post-war order in occupied Iraq was decided unanimously on 8 June of 2004. The draft of the United States and the United Kingdom had been negotiated in the Security Council for three weeks, most recently with the involvement of Lakhdar Brahimi and Iraqi government officials-designate.

According to the resolution, the mandate for the deployment of the multinational armed forces expires as soon as a democratically elected government is in office by 2006 at the latest.

The transfer of power from the coalition interim administration to the Iraqi interim government takes place with their participation in operations of the occupying forces (currently 160,000 men) foreign soldiers. The last addition met the critics (France and Germany ) again by anchoring a security partnership: the US-led coalition is forming a special committee with the new Baghdad interim government for all security-related issues and attack operations with the Baghdad government. A veto right called for several times (but not by Iraq) was not agreed.

The government also gains greater control over the oil industry and financial resources, and can call on foreign troops to withdraw if security allows. The mandate of the troops should have expired in January 2006 at the latest, when an elected Iraqi government replaced the then interim government, but it has been extended and is still ongoing.

Currently the presence of the multinational force is under the mandate of resolution 1723 (2006) .

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