United Nations Security Council Resolution 1546

On 8 June 2004, the Iraq resolution ( Resolution 1546 of the UN Security Council) to the post-war order was passed unanimously. The design of the United States and the United Kingdom had been negotiated in the Security Council for three weeks, most recently with the involvement of Lakhdar Brahimi and designated Iraqi officials.

According to the resolution, the mandate for the deployment of multinational forces lapse as soon as the latest in 2006 is a democratically elected government.

The transfer of power from the Coalition Provisional Authority to the Iraqi Interim Government is taking their participation in actions by the occupying forces (currently 160,000 men ) foreign soldiers. The last addition was the critics (France and Germany ) again by anchoring a security partnership contrary: The US-led coalition forms with the new Baghdad transitional government a special committee for all security issues and attack operations with the Baghdad government in a work together. A multiple (but not Iraq ) demanded veto was not agreed.

The government also receives greater impact on the petroleum industry and financial resources and may ask the foreign troops to withdraw, when the security situation permitted. The mandate of the troops would have to be phased out in January 2006 at the latest, when an elected Iraqi government has replaced the former transitional government, but it has been extended and is still ongoing.

Currently, the presence of the multinational force under the mandate of resolution 1723 (2006) stands.