The international community should assist the council to "perform its task so that the Iraqi people can run their country's affairs, reform institutions, shoulder their responsibilities, and achieve national unity," said a Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson in a statement released in Doha.
The spokesperson voiced Qatar's hope that the council will "fulfill the Iraqi people's aspirations to security and stability ... and to the preservation of Iraq's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity".
The 25-member transitory Governing Council held its inaugural session in Baghdad on Sunday in the first meeting of an Iraqi executive body since Saddam Hussein's regime was forced from power by a US-led coalition in April.
Qatar served as the US forward command headquarters during the Iraq war.
Kuwait, which served as launch pad for the US and British forces that invaded Iraq in March, also hailed the formation of the interim governing body as "a step on the road to restoring security and stability" in the country.
The creation of the council should contribute to "pooling efforts to rebuild Iraq so that this country, its people and the entire region recover peace and prosperity," said an official spokesperson quoted by the state news agency Kuna.
Saddam's regime invaded Kuwait in August 1990 and occupied it for seven months before being driven out in the 1991 Gulf War. - Sapa-AFP.
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