The United Nations Representative to Iraq, Jeanine Plasschaert, affirmed: “The memory of targeting the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad should be a motive for the pursuit of peace and stability.”
“The terrorist attack that targeted the United Nations headquarters in 2003 was the beginning of a wave of terrorist operations that targeted Iraqis,” Plasschaert said in a speech during the ceremony commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, noting that “the past twenty years witnessed many changes in Iraq, and the United Nations has not ceased its responsibility to achieve peace in Iraq.
She added: “The Iraqi government has expressed its intention to provide many solutions, whether in addressing the problem of water and governance, addressing the electricity crisis, achieving economic and financial reforms, and other matters,” noting that the headquarters targeted by terrorists 20 years ago has become a center for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug users, and with the plans of the Ministry of Health, many drug users will benefit from the services of this center.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency