Friday, October 29, 2010

Barham Salih, reveals near agreement on a government headed by al-Maliki ~ Iraqi announces willingness to compromise ...

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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Barham Salih, reveals near agreement on a government headed by al-Maliki

Iraqi announces willingness to compromise .. and the Supreme Council reaffirms the Government of the partnership

بغداد - الصباح BAGHDAD - morning

Prevailed in a tone of optimism on the statements politicians during the past few hours in the transition to a new stage after the political deadlock that prevailed in the Iraqi arena for months.

The present situations and developments after the relative success of the first meeting of the political blocs in Baghdad next week, and agreed to hold a second meeting tomorrow for the circulation of the issue of the distribution of positions sovereign.

تفاؤل Optimism

Vice-President of the Republic leadership in the Islamic Supreme Council, Adel Abdul-Mahdi said the government formation crisis «entered the final stages».

Abdul-Mahdi said during his meeting yesterday with National Security Adviser to U.S. Vice President Tony Pellnkn winning political blocs that make negotiations and serious dialogue to get out of this crisis.

He noted that the meeting which took place in Baghdad on Wednesday between representatives of parliamentary blocs form an important development at this level, expressing hope that the next meetings result in concrete results of good cause to hold a meeting of the House of Representatives as a prelude to open the way for the election of the three presidencies.

And Abdel-Mahdi said the round-table draft that came in the initiative of the President of Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, is an important approach to bridge the gap in views between the blocks of winning.

For his part, Pellnkn the continued support his country's democratic experience in Iraq, adding that his government considers the process of forming the government «internal affair», but want the emergence of a national government partnership and the marginalization of any party and have the conditions for success.

In the meantime, the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Barham Saleh, said that the parliamentary blocs have become closer to consensus on the selection of the current Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to head the next government.

Saleh said in remarks quoted by Vinchal Times: The «Kurds made it clear to all the political blocs and should be the next government will be inclusive and credible, and include representation of an influential Sunni Arab», pointing out that they (the Kurds) and put in mind to be in the position of the center of the ongoing crisis, but said: "The issue is not about political bloc that would agree to the demands of the Kurds that they made earlier.

He also said Saleh: that «everyone has established the framework for the way that should be operating by the next government», noting that «must be re-formation of the Iraqi forces to be seen as the forces of national associations representing everyone in the country, especially with fears that some of these forces have relations with political parties

دعوات Invitations

In the meantime, the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim, his call to hold a round table and described it as: »the portal through which to achieve the safeguards process of true partnership desired between the sons of the Iraqi people and the formation of a team working for a single harmonious which puts hand in hand in order to serve the Iraqi people and well-being and to address the chronic problems that have plagued the country ».

Mr. Hakim said in his speech the Forum Cultural Weekly: «It is important opportunity through which consensus on the formation of the government to ensure that the case of reassurance to all political parties.

And that the representatives of the Supreme Council in the Parliament will participate with full force and packages in the preliminary meetings of the round table, holding a clear vision of how to achieve consensus among all political parties «.

Regarding the decision of the Federal Court to end the open meeting, said Hakim «We believe that a good decision and we very much welcome this step and will Ktltna parliamentary force in the meetings of the House of Representatives at the opening of its meetings to exercise their roles required of them by the Constitution and the law and according to what he is looking the Iraqi people in the legislative and oversight role required to activate this legislative institution mission in the Iraqi state, but at the same time we renew our reservation on the use of umbrella parliamentary risk meat Iraqi nationalism and the absence of the will of some of the key players through parliament because this would create a crisis than the crisis we are experiencing now ».

He heads the Supreme Council: «We have to insure everyone and involve everyone in the access to see one is very difficult to achieve political stability without all come to see one it is very difficult to get to the security and stability without political stability, it was very difficult to achieved economic recovery and the provision of services and welfare of the citizens without the stability of security ..

We do not want ourselves to be a reason to disrupt the formation of the government, even for one day or one hour and accused the Supreme Council as a reason to disrupt the formation of the government commits a great injustice to him and he should know well.

Hakim said «we will not participate in the government can not be achieved in true partnership, because we see this as the only approach to achieve a stable Iraq, a stable, prosperous and we want to achieve these aspirations of our people, and being drawn into a haggling sectarian and ignore the main parties in government formation may lead to the return of Iraq to square one ».

مواقف سياسية Political positions

In the framework of political positions, revealed the leadership of the Kurdistan Alliance for Mahmoud Othman, the most prominent observations codified in Iraq and a coalition of state law Kurdish card.

Osman said in a statement quoted by news agency Nina: The «Iraqi List, was to have some reservations about the presidency of the Republic and the grant to the Alliance of Kurdistan, in addition to the subject of the Peshmerga and the Article 140 of the Constitution, and they did not mention the article, but said that the problem of the disputed areas should be resolved according to the Constitution.

Othman added that «the responses of the Iraqi List, was not bad and we should study and this tells us to do Bembagesat more to form a government», saying that «the replies of the State law is clear we have not registered any objection, but one point is that the government is considered illegitimate in the event of withdrawal of the Kurdistan Alliance, which, a paragraph relating to the withdrawal of the Kurds from the government in the event of breaches of constitutional.

Osman described the point at which the reservation by a coalition of state law the task because the Kurds will not remain silent in case of violations of constitutional violations or that up to a certain extent, he said.

Osman also announced that the Supreme Council approved the Kurdish card without any objection.

العراقية Iraq

To confirm the information advisor to the Iraqi coalition Hani Ibrahim Ashour «Dr. Iyad Allawi, ready to give up his right to the post of prime minister in order to speed up the formation of a government of national partnership».

Ashour said in a press statement: «waiver can not be exported from Iraq without being offset by concessions from the other political parties, especially with regard to the concept of the powers and their distribution among the three presidencies» he said, adding that the powers should not be, however, the next prime minister under whatever name.

In Washington, discussed Vice President Joseph Biden with the relevant officials in the U.S. administration on Tuesday evening, developments in negotiations on forming a government.

A statement issued by the White House pointed out that the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, James Jeffrey Biden briefed at a meeting falls within the high regular series of discussions on Iraq on the political situation in it.

For his part, said the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. Lloyd Austin: The unstable security situation there, and that Iraqi security forces carry out their tasks professionally.

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