Sunday, November 28, 2010

Informed sources told «Middle East»: Allawi, agreed to chair the Policy Council conditions .. The U.S. promises


Looks like the fate of Iraq may lie in Allawi's hands? Yes? No? Article a bit arabish ...

~snip ~ "In addition to his duties ~ In particularly the completion of the requirements of removing Iraq from Chapter VII, and identification of a priority list of laws and legislation through the House of Representatives, and follow-up to the constitutional amendments and laws, the former Iraqi regime that are inconsistent with existing laws"

Sunday, November 28, 2010

(Voice of Iraq) - «Middle East» publish details of the law and the powers of the Board .. And leading role in «Iraq»: coverage drip deprive us of the positions


Baghdad: Huda Jassim

Informed sources from within the Iraqi List, that Iyad Allawi, former prime minister and leader of the «Iraq», has announced the approval of «conditional» to assume the presidency of the National Council of strategic policy. The approval came during a meeting at his headquarters in Baghdad Allawi, U.S. Ambassador James Jeffrey, the top U.S. commander Gen. Lloyd Austin, on Thursday evening.

Washington is keen to take a senior role in Allawi's Iraqi government to ensure the representation of the list. It was Joe Biden, Vice President and in charge of the Iraqi file, you may support the establishment of this council with broad powers granted under the proposed power-sharing between Allawi, whose list won the parliamentary elections, and Prime Minister-designate Nuri al-Maliki, who has resolved its list of state law came in second. Blocs and leaders agreed to give Allawi presidency of the Council, but that the latter seemed hesitant about it, the lack of guarantees for the powers of the Council and the extent of requiring the executive bodies of its decisions.

A source familiar with from within the Iraqi List, said the meeting between Allawi and Jeffrey Gen. Austin «ensure the development of the main points of agreement between Allawi and the leaders of political blocs on the National Council for the strategic policy, and remember the promises the U.S. to give an effective role for this Council constitutionally».

The source added that «Allawi, agreed fully on the job after giving the green light to the Parliament to enact the law on the Council and the voting powers within the constitutional basis for his administration».

This comes at a time in which the other sources of the Iraqi bloc completion of the process of writing the Law on the National Council for strategic policy amid controversy about the powers of this Council and subject or not subject to the politicians that will drip under which the distribution of ministerial and government positions.

Said Fattah al-Sheikh, a member of the Iraqi List, said that «the agreement signed between the leaders of the blocks does not a disclaimer that the law has been written and will be put in and read House of Representatives during the next few meetings for a vote and approved».

The Sheikh told «Middle East» that «the Council will have powers of constitutional, executive and will be members of the Prime Minister and his deputies, the President of the Republic and his deputies, the Speaker and his deputies and heads of political blocs and the President of the Integrity Commission, and that most of its functions will be policy-making strategy of the country, including security policies and international conventions, security including, in particular ».

Is scheduled distribution of government posts and ministries among the blocks on the basis points, according to the sources, is calculated for each point and a half seats in parliament, if the block is for example 10 seats in parliament, it means that it has only 4 points.

On the coverage of the system of accounts and punctuation, "said Sheikh« has not yet been set points that will by this Council, and that if the coverage of this system, the Iraqi List, you will lose a lot of ministries expected to attach, and especially service ones, and that in the absence of coverage of the system will be share of Iraq's 10 ministries, including Foreign Siadetan are two or financial or oil ».

And seek the Iraqi List, not to cover the points in order not to lose a lot of points, but the other blocks as long as it refuses to do so will be the Council's own budget and the headquarters and staff, the situation in that case with other government positions.

For his part, said Ali al-Moussawi, Media Advisor to the Prime Minister told «Middle East» that «the National Council for the strategic policy will include a system of punctuation as part of the government positions and part of the sovereign».

He also stressed the lead in a coalition of state law, led by al-Maliki, told «Middle East» on condition of anonymity «that through table Erbil and Baghdad, and through agreements had been given to this Council the power to take decisions with prejudice to the strategic issues in the country, and that other authorities will be committed to the provided to achieve 80% of the votes within the Council ».


The sources told «Middle East» general lines of the new Council, and said that it will have a Secretary General or the President be agreed upon among the presidencies of the country's Supreme, the President and his two deputies, Prime Minister and his deputies, parliament speaker and two deputies, before establishing the new ministry in a meeting of the Council House of Representatives.

The Council shall have full-time secretariat and the headquarters and a brigade in a presidential Balriasat like three, and be an independent budget, like the three presidencies, and recognizes in law the general budget for this year.

The Board will include, who chairs the meetings of the President of the Republic or the President or Secretary-General, Vice-President of the Republic and the Speaker and his deputies and the Prime Minister and his deputies, the President of the Federal Council and the President of the Supreme Judicial Council and the President of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Minister of Defense and the Interior Minister and Minister of National Security and Foreign Minister and Minister of Finance and Minister of Justice and Chief of Intelligence and the Minister of Peshmerga and the Minister of the Interior in the government of the Kurdistan region, and can add other members of the non-executive directors as observers, not entitled to vote on resolutions of the Council, and shall be part of the executive and to replace the National Security Council consultant in the Council of Ministers ...

In addition to his duties the other, and committed ministers, each according to its competence in the presence of necessary meetings in the fields of competence, that does not contradict with the work of the Council of Ministers, with the full commitment issued by the Council, including resolutions. It also has a panel of advisers in the fields of various disciplines like the prime minister.

The terms of reference are «developing common visions and responsible» in file management strategy in the institutions of the state supreme economic and political issues, security and services, energy and other, in harmony and integration of plans and programs according to the map of a comprehensive developmental its binding to the executive, and setting a schedule of priorities and follow up their implementation ...

In particularly the completion of the requirements of removing Iraq from Chapter VII, and identification of a priority list of laws and legislation through the House of Representatives, and follow-up to the constitutional amendments and laws, the former Iraqi regime that are inconsistent with existing laws.

The tasks of the Council also «to develop and propose high-level policy of the State in various fields and follow up the implementation of these policies from the authorities in charge of the relationship, and the organization of Iraq's relationship with the international community, and the organization of things internal and external security to ensure the stability of Iraq and the state's ability to deter or repel aggression of any kind or his time ».

NICEM also various economic actors in the fields of oil and gas, industry, agriculture, trade, and monetary policy, financial policy and investment.

http://www.sotaliraq.com/iraq-news.php?id=11961