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•
there were
14 leaders of political parties, three women (a result of the
Kurdish
parties
failing to put forward strong female candidates), and two from
Basra;
•
membership
of the GC was agreed by consensus; and
•
it declared
itself to be a representative group of the Iraqi people and
the
Governing
Council of the interim administration called for under resolution
1483.
231.
In relation to
Security Sector Reform (addressed in detail in Section 12.1)
the
Annotated
Agenda said that:
“CPA plans
are to develop policies in conjunction with emerging Iraqi
authorities,
to ensure
that the major decisions on the size, shape and structure have
full
Iraqi involvement.”
232.
Cabinet Office
officials also explained that the newly-formed Basra
Province
Interim
Council was not connected to the GC. A link would need to be
established so
that
funding could move south from Baghdad.
233.
Sir John
Sawers told the Inquiry that the CPA denied itself the authority to
appoint
any
ministers who were not nominated by the GC.111
In the
‘Authorities’ document, the
GC alone
was given power to appoint, oversee and dismiss interim ministers,
as well as
appointing
international representatives of Iraq, such as Ambassadors.
Although the GC
would
appoint the Finance Minister, the budget for 2004 would be drawn up
“with the
CPA, and
with the involvement of representatives of the IMF, World Bank and
UNDP”.
234.
Sir John also
told the Inquiry that the GC itself agreed that it represented the
ethnic
composition
of the country, and had the correct ethnic balance between Arabs
and
Kurds,
representatives of all the major cities and provinces of the
country; and a balance
between
Islamists and non-Islamists.112
According
to Sir John, the majority of members
had lived
in Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
235.
The Cabinet
Office Annotated Agenda for 17 July also informed members of
the
AHMGIR
that:
“The CPA
Strategic Plan has been finalised and circulated internally within
the
CPA. At
present there are no plans to publish it. Although not perfect, it
meets our
basic
requirements. Next steps: CPA staff will use the Strategic Plan to
inform
further
work in planning and prioritisation of the CPA’s work. A revised,
detailed
implementation
plan is due by 22 July. UK secondees in CPA will continue to try
to
shape this
to ensure that it is coherent and commits the CPA to an ambitious
but
236.
Cabinet Office
officials described the CPA’s decision to create 18 CPA teams
to
match the
18 Governorate offices in the Iraqi administrative
structure.
111 Public
hearing, 10 December 2009, page 93.
112
Public
hearing, 10 December 2009, page 94.
113 Annotated
Agenda, 17 July 2003, Ad Hoc Group on Iraq Rehabilitation
meeting.
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