IRAQ IN FOR WORSE THINGS, WARNS FORMER AMBASSADOR TO UN

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DUBAI, July 2 (RIA Novosti) - Iraq's situation gives no grounds for optimism after its provisional government succeeded to office, warns Dr. Muhammad al-Douri, Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations under the Saddam Hussein regime.

His country has only a limited sovereignty in the political, economic, legal and whatever other respect, with 14 or more U.S. army bases remaining there, he said to Novosti.

The Coalition Provisional Authority implemented more than seventy resolutions just before ceding power to give sizeable preference to expatriate military and civilian officers, and drastically limit the rights and duties of Iraqi authorities, pointed out our interviewee.

He compared the present-day arrangement to a capitulation regime which the European colonial Powers imposed on the 19th century Ottoman Empire to subdue and enslave it.

Dr. al-Douri is alarmed as his country faces the dangerous prospect of an ethnic and religious split. Iraqis are not to stick in the quagmire of internecine strife but join efforts against military occupation and for a better national future. Too many forces are out to obliterate Iraq from the Arab political map, and looking forward to its split and clashes between communities, he said.

Dr. Muhammad al-Douri was a scholar and professor of international law at the University of Baghdad for thirty years before his appointment to the United Nations. He resigned from the high post, April 11, 2003. The researcher and diplomat flatly refused to cooperate with the coalition.

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