January 1, 2011Iraq’s National Council for Strategic Policies to be formed end of January or early February
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraq’s National Council for Strategic Policies (NCSP), proposed by al-Iraqiya Coalition, led by former its leader and former Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, is expected to be formed by the end of January or early next month, Al-Iraqiya Coalition’s Legislature, Shaker Kattab, said on Saturday.
“The NCSP’s daft-law was sent to the Parliament for discussion and voting upon by the end of this month or early next month,” Kattab told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, adding that “any law needs several readings to be passed by the Parliament,” and reaffirming that all the points related to its draft-law had been explained.”
As regards to some candidates for the security ministries, Kattab said: “there is no difference towards the candidates, but the delay of their naming is due to the sensitivity of their ministries and their significance,” adding that such “delay for such a long time shall cost the Iraqi State and the society, a lot; so we wish to settle the issue of those ministries by next week.”
Noteworthy is that the Iraqi Parliament had granted trust on 21/12/2010 to the government program, presented by Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki and members of his cabinet, after a straneous dialogue that continued for about 9 months that followed Iraq’s March 7th nationwide elections.
Maliki’s new cabinet had comprised 31 ministries, whilst he kept the administration of the Interior, Defense and National Security Ministries, on “acting” bases, whilst he assigned several other cabinet seats for ministers, also on “acting” basis, temporarily, till the naming of their ministers.
Sharp competitions are taking place among the main political blocs about the nomination of personalities for the three security posts, to grant al-Iraqiya Coalition the right to nominate a person for the Defense Minister’s post, the National Coalition to nominate an Interior Minister, whilst the Kurdish Coalition is demanding to nominate the Minister of National Security.
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