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For the first time .. Baghdad secretly discussing with the Baath and Sunni opposition factions
Tuesday 06-10-2015
Shafaq News / A report published in London for secret talks in which the Iraqi government and participated Mnahioha of the year, and said it was the first to take place since the fall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime, as was the absence of Sunni politicians and imprisoned.
The report said that the first round of talks took place in the Qatari capital Doha earlier this month, followed by two weeks after a second round in Tanzania, and decided to hold three more rounds in Riyadh, Paris and Doha.
The newspaper said (Andipandant) of London in its report that it was able to see pictures of the meetings that took place in Tanzania attended by representatives of Western and African, as well as representatives of the Iraqi government. She added that these meetings take place under the auspices of the United States and the United Nations.
The report says that "the Iraqi government opened this secret talks with Iraqi Sunni figures linked to militias and elements of the former Baathist regime in an attempt to include them in the ranks of the army, and get their support for the fight against al-Daash."
Insiders say he has been significant progress, in the first meeting of its kind representatives of the former Baathist regime, who insisted on rejecting the independence of the Kurdistan Region of full self-government and that Iraq remains fully unified involved in it and so the first stumbling block has been exceeded.
The report notes that he viewed the cooperation of the Sunnis in Iraq is vital in the fight against (Daash), which is itself considered an enemy of the secular Sunni who suffered deprivation and displacement after removal from power was isolated and stripped of everything in the era of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
And participate in meetings of nine Iraqi Sunni factions including representatives of the Islamic Army in Iraq and the Al Naqshbandi, both of which appeared in 2003 to fight the coalition forces led by the United States in the wake of the invasion. These groups also fought a war against the Iraqi army along with (Daash) last year.
Al-Maliki accused of fomenting sectarian war that erupted in the wake of General invasion in 2003 through discrimination against officials with backgrounds Baathist, and deploy teams strategy and clog with the Shiite armed forces largely deployed heavily in the Sunni areas, and left with many Sunnis feeling to resort to violence to counter Government action against them.
Will also participate in the talks Baathists, former officers of Saddam Hussein's regime, who were expelled from the government during the occupation by US-led, and they now form the backbone of the so-called Military Council, as well as the participation of a number of leaders, politicians and representatives of Sunni clans.
The report says (Andipandant), which MEMRI site Elaph, the second progress in the talks is that all participants stressed commitment to the Iraqi constitution, adopted in 2005, which acknowledged the Shiites as the largest ethnic group in the country, but did not give political weight equal to Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds.
It was also during the two rounds of talks in-depth research about how they will organize anti-Daash, where representatives of the student year not sharing the Shiite militias in the liberation of the Sunni areas in Mosul, many of its residents feel betrayed by the Iraqi Shiite army commanders mainly after fleeing last year in Daash face attack, as fears that the population of Mosul year may choose to support the organization rather than liberated by Shiites.
The report says that it is hoped that the meetings will lead to a Sunni role in government after years of exclusion from the political process, as well as pushing many Sunni politicians and civilians in the prisons, which has led to popular protests in their areas which led ultimately to the rise of the organization (Daash) .
The report concludes that the Iraqi government has been subject to pressure from the United States to participate in these events hoping to fix the gap and divisions between Shi'ite-led government and the Sunni community, and unite in the war against Daash and end its presence in Iraq.
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