Summary:
- The Iraqi government has requested the United Nations to end a mission aimed at governance and human rights reforms by the end of 2025.
- Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani stated that Iraq has achieved important steps in areas under the mission’s mandate, rendering it unnecessary.
- While not opposing a one-year extension, the government wants the mission to focus on completing tasks for a permanent closure by 2025.
- This request is part of Iraq’s efforts to wind down international bodies established post-2003, including a U.S.-led military coalition and a UN investigative team.
