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Culture: the resolution of millions of secret documents lost in 2014
1/15/2012 7:04
Baghdad / term
confirmed the Iraqi Ministry of Culture on Saturday, the return of millions of secret documents missing from Iraq will be decided after the end of the 2014 agreement signed by the American Institute of Hoover (holder of the documents) with the Foundation is not registered in Iraq is called the Foundation (memory)
Which acted Archive extradited without the approval of Iraqi authorities. And exposed hundreds of government institutions after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in April 2003 to looting organized by parties and members of international destinations affected thousands of files for the former Iraqi regime, but Iraq demanded those countries after years to return what was stolen.
Some sources say that "the United States refrain for re 3 million documents stolen from Iraq, most of the national leadership and national Baath Party. It is an archive of the Iraqi government. "
The Library and Archives of Iraq has announced the recovery of quantities of these documents, but the bulk of them remained, however, the United States, parties and individuals. "
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture, Taher Hamoud, told the Kurdish news agency reported yesterday that "the number of documents stolen is not known yet, but it is estimated millions, and the winner of the documents is the Hoover Institution U.S. after signing a contract with an institution called the (Iraq Memory Foundation), which has extradition Archive After 2003, under the pretext of maintenance and rehabilitation and to archive, while she has no right to do so because they are not registered in Iraq.
He said the agent, "even if the institution is registered in Iraq, they do not have the right to act on inheritance of Iraq as a legacy a secret can not be manipulated," noting that "the competent American contends always that the return Archive Iraq subject to the terms of the agreement signed by both sides and can not intervene in the settled. "
said the agent refused to trading of the Institute on he started to archive documents and scheduling digitally for submission to the researchers later, because the documents are confidential and belong to Khvaya the Baath Party and the national leadership and national system Previous in Iraq.
and about the possibility of pursuing the matter judicially, especially after years of claims that are not feasible, said Hamoud that "resort to the judiciary the question arise, as the institution that deposited archives are points of the U.S. committed major irregularities, but we do not rush to set up the case, and we have many options before the order to restore the archive.
The Member of the Committee of Culture and Information Attorney Hassan Al-Alawi had been charged earlier in the government of having stolen her memory through the silence of the looting Archive of Iraq. and said upper in an interview earlier with the term "do not know any of the terms of the occupation permits to the United States theft archives of the Iraqi state,"
said the top "that the Americans do not trust them one, they are not keen on the Archive of Iraq, but he gave that confidence to the British reasoned that the" America is not a country but a group of companies, and can any of them to buy and sell to global markets. "
The Ministry of Culture FD demanded earlier, the United States recovering the Archive of Iraq, urging him to stay away from procrastination.
as he said, then Deputy Minister Taher Hamoud that "the Ministry of Culture conducted over the past months a series of communications of diplomatic ties with Washington, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iraq to restore Iraqi documents, according to the agreement obtained in Washington last year. " He called Hamoud the U.S. side to "stay away from procrastination and put things in context, and not distract effort negotiating things secondary, not a priority for Iraq."
Undersecretary of Culture that "the institutions archives in Iraq started to recover and integrate in terms of technical capabilities and technical", citing the present particular at the library and the Iraqi documents of the Ministry of Culture.
He stressed that the "Archive of Iraq represents one of the aspects of the country's sovereign and that the United States should be respected within the framework of bilateral relations."
According to official statistics, about 60% of Iraqi documents, estimated at tens of millions have been exposed to theft and damage during the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The Iraqi delegation headed by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture, Taher Hamoud visited the United States in May 2010 and held a series of talks with officials in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense Americas were received pledges from the U.S. side to return the documents all in his possession to Iraq, including the Archive Jewish during the period short time.
She Library and Archives National Commission for Culture of Iraq, earlier this month, to resort to all legal means, including international courts to recover many of the Iraqi documents in the possession of the American side, including the Archive Jewish.
The director of Dar Saad Bashir Eskander in an earlier statement, "The Iraqi side is still U.S. officials negotiate to recover many of the Iraqi bond, but dragging their heels in the back, including the Jewish Archive. " The Alexander that "Iraq will resort to take legal means to recover all the Iraqi documents, especially the international courts."
He explained that "the Iraqi diplomatic on the subject of active recovery Archive of Iraq and talks are still ongoing with the U.S. side."
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