UN Security Council
2008

members of the International Advisory and Monitoring Board, to brief the Council in January 2009; 5. Decides to review resolutions pertaining specifically to Iraq, beginning with the adoption of resolution 661 (1990), and in that regard requests the Secretary-General to report, after consultations with Iraq, on facts relevant to consideration by the Council of actions necessary for Iraq to achieve international standing equal to that which it held prior to the adoption of such resolutions; 6. Decides to remain actively seized of the matter. 08-66605 3 S/RES/1859 (2008) Annex Letter dated 7 December 2008 from the Prime Minister of Iraq addressed to the President of the Security Council Further to our letter dated 31 December 2007 addressed to you, in which we indicated that the extension of the mandate of the Multinational Forces in Iraq (MNF I) would be for one final time; with appreciation for the important role and efforts of those forces in assisting Iraq to achieve security and stability; and in view of the fact that Iraq has signed the Agreement between the United States of America