"We hope that the Interim Government will be able to make its important contribution to the creation of national institutions of executive power and to solve such principled problems as internal stabilisation and the rehabilitation of the economy and the social infrastructure," the statement by official spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Yakovenko says.
"We proceed from the fact that the international community with the United Nations at the head is called upon to render as much aid as possible to the Iraqi people in achieving these aims," the diplomat underscored.
According to him, Russia has always come out for the earliest restoration of Iraq's sovereignty, for the strengthening of the legal basis of Iraqi society.
Alexander Yakovenko noted that the Iraqi new structures of power had been supported by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. "We expect that in the near future he will submit the report on the results of the mission in Iraq of his special representative Lakhdar Brahimi for the consideration of the UN Security Council," Alexander Yakovenko said.
On June 1, Baghdad announced the formation of the Interim Government of Iraq and the dissolution of the Interim Governing Council.
