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Twilight News / Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Wednesday, that the agreement signed in 2009 is the best solution to the security situation in the disputed areas between Baghdad and Erbil.
Maliki faces objections by Kurds because of the deployment of the Tigris in the disputed areas without coordinating with them. But Prime Minister defended his steps as commander in chief of the armed forces in the country.
Earlier, a high-level source told " Twilight News "that al-Maliki will send a proposal agreed by the Council of Ministers to be managing the security file in the disputed areas shared between Baghdad and Erbil.
And Erbil frequently accuses Baghdad not to find a solution to these areas despite the fact that the Iraqi constitution select self-determination through three stages, but the Arab and Turkmen parties insist that this article has become finished effect.
Maliki said in a statement issued by his office and sent for "Twilight News" that he should "go back to the 2009 agreement on the responsibility of managing security in mixed areas."
Maliki was speaking during a meeting with parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi in Baghdad.
He added that this agreement "stipulating the need to form joint checkpoints between the Peshmerga and the army to reassure all citizens."
But al-Maliki at the same time pointed out that he should "be running these centers and points under the supervision of the federal government."
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