Iraqi List renews conditions for attending emergency meeting
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 10:21 amIraqi List renews conditions for attending emergency meeting
BAGHDAD, Jan.2 (AKnews)- Iraqiya List won’t participate in the due crisis meeting of the political leader unless some conditions are met, an Iraqiya deputy said today.
Recent steps against two Iraqiya leaders have further deepened the crises in the country. Baghdad issued an arrest order against Vice President Tareq Hashemi for his alleged involvement in terrorist operations. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki also sacked his Iraqiya deputy, Saleh Multag, saying Mutalg does not believe in political process.
Hashemi has denied the charges, accusing the PM of politicizing the case and the security of fabricating evidence against him. He has now taken refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan Region, where Iraqi President Jalal Talabni regards him as a guest and refuses to hand him over to Baghdad.
Mutlag also does not recognize his dismissal order. This is while Iraqiya ministers and lawmakers have boycotted sessions for more than two weeks.
To prevent further tension, Talabani has called for a crisis meeting of the political leaders.
Wahda al-Jamili, an Iraqiya leader told AKnews that her bloc supports the meeting as a measure to break through the current crisis but Iraqiya’s presence in the meeting is bound to some conditions.
The most prominent conditions, she said, are that the issues of the VP and Mutlag be discussed in the due meeting, the agenda of the meeting be announced for the public, and committees be formed to follow up the enforcement of recommendations by the meeting within a deadline.
Jamili added the emergency meeting in itself was called for to settle Hashemi and Mutlag’s issues.
The largest bloc to the House of Representatives, the Shiite dominated National Coalition has refused to attend the meeting should the parties address the issue of Hashemi and Mutlag, considering this an interference in judiciary authority.
Earlier an advisor to Maliki said that PM will not reconcile over his sacked deputy, Mutlag, and will not accept any mediation.
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BAGHDAD, Jan.2 (AKnews)- Iraqiya List won’t participate in the due crisis meeting of the political leader unless some conditions are met, an Iraqiya deputy said today.
Recent steps against two Iraqiya leaders have further deepened the crises in the country. Baghdad issued an arrest order against Vice President Tareq Hashemi for his alleged involvement in terrorist operations. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki also sacked his Iraqiya deputy, Saleh Multag, saying Mutalg does not believe in political process.
Hashemi has denied the charges, accusing the PM of politicizing the case and the security of fabricating evidence against him. He has now taken refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan Region, where Iraqi President Jalal Talabni regards him as a guest and refuses to hand him over to Baghdad.
Mutlag also does not recognize his dismissal order. This is while Iraqiya ministers and lawmakers have boycotted sessions for more than two weeks.
To prevent further tension, Talabani has called for a crisis meeting of the political leaders.
Wahda al-Jamili, an Iraqiya leader told AKnews that her bloc supports the meeting as a measure to break through the current crisis but Iraqiya’s presence in the meeting is bound to some conditions.
The most prominent conditions, she said, are that the issues of the VP and Mutlag be discussed in the due meeting, the agenda of the meeting be announced for the public, and committees be formed to follow up the enforcement of recommendations by the meeting within a deadline.
Jamili added the emergency meeting in itself was called for to settle Hashemi and Mutlag’s issues.
The largest bloc to the House of Representatives, the Shiite dominated National Coalition has refused to attend the meeting should the parties address the issue of Hashemi and Mutlag, considering this an interference in judiciary authority.
Earlier an advisor to Maliki said that PM will not reconcile over his sacked deputy, Mutlag, and will not accept any mediation.
http://bit.ly/ufdLD0