Biden and the presidency of Erbil calling everyone to stop media campaigns
On: Friday 2/12/2011 5:25
Baghdad / term
a meeting of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and his two deputies Tariq al-Hashemi and Khudair Khuzaie allocated "to address the differences between political parties and work hard to achieve the unity of attitudes, policies and work together after the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq ..
Council has called for the presidency all the political parties to stop the media campaigns of mutual immediately "and to refrain from bickering and give the speech convulsive in the media and the commitment in the cultural brotherly constructive in addressing the problems and shortcomings and errors, and within the frameworks of political, parliamentary and ministerial and respect for the agreements and solidarity ministerial and real participation in the rights and duties." He also said a presidential statement last night.
The Council called upon "all those responsible to respect the Constitution and the rights of citizens according to the laws and principles of democracy and human rights, reminding that the President of the Republic in accordance with Article 67 of the Basic Law (sees to ensure compliance with the Constitution) and thus the defense of citizens and their constitutional rights and legal." He proceed immediately to prepare for a summit meetings two and three and four and then to call a meeting of representatives of political parties of different preparation to meet a broad national includes all the political actors. "She presidential hope," the response of all parties to this appeal and this call and to work hand in hand to achieve the cooperation sought . "
Talabani said the need to take a series of measures to promote the political process in the forefront of creating an atmosphere of confidence between the parties and agree on a national program in both the legislative and executive, and prioritize the discussion and adoption of laws by importance and determine the powers of each of the three authorities and to prevent the overlap or override any of the powers of the other authority The executive branch should be based on the program are its guidelines national consensus and guided by the government in its work.
and he said in a speech to a conference in Baghdad for the democratic transition that to achieve these goals, "we have proposed, in consultation with our brothers and our work on two first held a series of meetings of the leaders of blocs Her influence in the House of Representatives and the government, and the second axis the call for a national conference involving forces and parties in the Parliament and the Council of Ministers and those that have not been represented in them. "He said that the fraternal dialogue open and constructive will contribute to remove or reduce the fears and uncertainties and clarify attitudes and to promote confidence and agreement to identify the challenges and risks faced by the country and the coordination of political discourse and pruned and stay away completely from the language of treason, accusations and questioned partners in the political process.
The invitation to the top of the new political, which will be the fourth in the event held since the beginning of last summer's come and profiteers political scene wide differences between the political blocs particularly among the state of law, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the Iraqi List led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, which witnessed their relations strained by disagreement over the implementation of the terms of Erbil, which took place between the political blocs late last year and formed the Iraqi government, but the other items which have not yet been implemented.
accuses Iraq's State of Law Coalition led by Maliki wrap agreements Arbil, which formed the current government late last year. After tough negotiations continued for months after parliamentary elections that took place early last year reached the political blocs to an agreement to form a government of national partnership, but differences still exist between blocs of Allawi and al-Maliki, especially those relating to the ministries of security and the formation of the National Council for the strategic policies. has often accused the Iraqi List led by Iyad Allawi, Maliki's coalition derogation from the agreements concluded and acceded to the coalition of Kurdish blocs recently when the government passed a draft law of oil and gas was objected to by the Kurds. The political forces agreed on the initiative of the President the Kurdistan region in September of last year to resolve the political crisis in Iraq, which resulted from the victory of the Iraqi bloc in the general election, and the formation of the National Alliance, the Shiite coalition forces his family to form a government instead of the Iraqi and the formation of the top of the strategic policies and assign his leader of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, in addition to a number of points including the commitment to the Constitution and the achievement of harmony and balance in the making and political partnership and the termination of the accountability and justice and activate national reconciliation and the formation of a government of national partnership.
Biden in Erbil
held U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden on Thursday held talks with Kurdish leaders in Erbil, an update of his talks, which held with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad yesterday about the two countries' relations in the post-withdrawal.
announced in Arbil that Biden will visit Kurdistan region in the framework of his official visit to Iraq. The head of the Presidium of the region Fouad Hussein, said the program Biden's visit to Iraq includes a visit to the Kurdistan region and the meeting President of the region Massoud Barzani to discuss a number of issues concerning relations Iraqi American and between the Kurdistan region and the United States in particular.
Barzani said he was ready to work with the central government in order to avoid deterioration of the security after the withdrawal of Washington's troops remaining in Iraq and the 13 thousand troops by the end of next month. He said in a press statement yesterday that the U.S. withdrawal will not have any impact on the security situation in Kurdistan because it were not there U.S. troops in the province, but said that there were concerns about security in the rest of the country, and stressed that the provincial government is willing to cooperate with Baghdad to avoid any vacuum a security.
The Biden held in Baghdad yesterday, the first talks with the heads of the Republic of Talabani and the government al-Maliki and the House of Representatives Osama Najafi dealt with the U.S. withdrawal and the foundations of relations between the two countries in the post-withdrawal and the transition from military cooperation to political cooperation, diplomatic, scientific, cultural, financial, commercial and technological. At the conclusion of the talks Following the end of the High Commission of the joint Iraqi U.S. headed by al-Maliki and Biden countries confirmed their commitment to the establishment of close cooperation in the field of security and defense, so as to promote stability in both countries, the United States seeks to resolve all issues to ensure remove Iraq from the consequences of Chapter VII of the Security Council, and put an end to many of these issues, dating back to the era of the former Iraqi regime.
He said a joint statement from the meeting took place "Elaph" the text that the two countries are committed to establishing a strong partnership and relations based on common interests, that will continue to grow for years to come. It set a new relationship of the two countries in the the post-withdrawal, and their transition from military cooperation to the commercial and financial cooperation, cultural, educational, energy and the judicial, political, diplomatic, and in the areas of security and defense services, the environment, technology and transportation.
In the commercial field, said countries continue their efforts to strengthen relations of cooperation and closer relations between the businessmen of the two, where Washington will support Iraqi government's efforts to develop the private banks and financial institutions and to provide expertise to do so, in addition to having developed plans for new lending to small and medium enterprises, in addition to the amounts appropriated for these projects, which amounts to $ 50 million.
Under the security pact signed between Baghdad and Washington in the end of November (November) in 2008 on the necessity of the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from the land and waters and airspace of Iraq all at no later than December 31 (December) 2011, current, after pulling out combat them under this agreement from the cities, villages and towns of Iraq on 30 June in 2009. Iraq has signed and the United States also in 2008, the strategic framework agreement to support the ministries and agencies of the Iraqi transition from a partnership strategy between Iraq and the United States to areas of economic, diplomatic, cultural and security .. in addition to the implementation of the program development of the police and the completion of the coordination, supervision and report to Fund Iraq Relief and reconstruction.
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