Shafaq News / The UN Security Council decided to send an international team to observe the Iraqi elections next October.

The spokesman for the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, Ahmed Al-Sahaf, said in a statement that the Security Council approved the Iraqi government's request, in Resolution 2576, to renew the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq until May 27, 2022.

Al-Sahaf pointed out that the resolution includes items adopted for the first time, to send an international team in Iraq to observe the electoral process