Saturday, October 30, 2010

Talabani and Barzani: We will not give up the presidency of the Republic and the Kurds are not second-class citizens ..

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October 30, 2010

Talabani and Barzani: We will not give up the presidency of the Republic and the Kurds are not second-class citizens

السومرية نيوز/ اربيل Alsumaria News / Erbil

Each of the new President Jalal Talabani and Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani, Saturday, Kurds hold the presidency, as the second component of the national in the country, and stressed that the attitudes and actions of some actors and personalities over the insistence of the Iraqi Kurds on their adherence to the office.

A statement to the presidency of the Kurdistan region received a "Alsumaria News", a copy of it, for Barzani as saying in a meeting of the coalition of Kurdish blocs, which was held in Arbil in the presence of Talabani, "We will not give up easily for the post of President of the Republic, and the actions of some characters and the Iraqi authorities make us more determined to claim this position, because it is right As the second component in Iraq, "stressing that" we will not accept that addresses the problems of others at the expense of the Kurds. "

The statement quoted the other hand, Talabani as saying in the meeting he had acted in his previous term, "an Iraqi testimony of all parties," noting that "the insistence of the Kurds to take over the office for a new cycle back to the positions of some parties, which announced on several occasions for not obligatory to give the position of the Kurds, and Kurds were second-class citizens not entitled to hold office again. "

Talabani added that "the Kurds, like any other component in Iraq, the right to hold such office, and participate actively in the administration of Iraq."

Does not hide some of the leaders of the Iraqi List (91 seats) and other lists their desire to assume personal Arab Iraqi presidency of the Republic, because of the identity of the majority Arab population, was repeated more than once was the beginning of the pre-election period was remarks by Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who stressed the need to have an Arab president of Iraq.

The latest statements came on the lips of a member of the Iraqi List, Mishan al-Sa'di said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", Saturday, as he confirmed, "the Iraqi List, felt to give up the post of prime minister, a sense of national interest even though they block the first winner of the elections," noting that "the prime minister is the biggest problem facing the formation of the government was dissolved after this concession, and Saadi stressed the need to get the Iraqi presidency of the Republic, noting that this sort of thing right, in return for the Kurdistan Alliance list for the chairmanship of the parliament."

The Prime Minister of the outgoing Nuri al-Maliki revealed in an interview with "Alsumaria TV", last Thursday, the Iraqi List is not currently demands that the post of prime minister, but the implementation of the reforms are limited in the number of Iraqi state institutions on matters related to terrorism, accountability, justice and the distribution of powers.

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