Iraq has asked the United Nations to condemn and halt the US and British-led invasion and ask them to withdraw their forces outside its borders.
In a statement sent to the UN Security Council and read on Iraqi television on this afternoon, Foreign Minister Mr Naji Sabri described the invasion as a threat to international and regional peace.
"Since the Anglo-American colonial military aggression against Iraq is a threat to international and regional peace and security, we call on the United Nations to condemn this invasion and aggression, move to stop it immediately and unconditionally, and ask US and British aggressors to withdraw their forces immediately outside the borders of the Republic of Iraq."
The statement added: "Security Council resolutions must be respected and implemented, starting with the lifting of the unjust sanctions against Iraq, disarming the Zionist entity [Israel] of weapons of mass destruction to create a region without weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East."
Mr Sabri said the war on Iraq was part of "criminal practices aimed at imposing US hegemony on the world".