U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan praised on Tuesday a new agreement between the Iraqi government and the Sunni Conference that enables Sunni representatives to return to the Iraqi constitutional committee, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. The United Nations will continue to work with the transitional government to achieve consensus around a new permanent constitution, Dujarric told reporters. "The secretary-general also commends the decision of the transitional government of Iraq to conduct an independent criminal investigation into the recent assassinations of two representatives of the Sunni Conference to the constitutional commission, Mijbil Sheikh al-Issa, and Dhaman al-Jabouri," said Dujarric. He added that Annan recommended that those responsible should be prosecuted.
