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Baghdad sent a delegation to dialogue with Assad, the Syrian opposition
On: Friday 16/12/2011 5:46
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revealed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in an interview with AFP yesterday that Iraq would send a delegation to Syria to put an Iraqi initiative aims to open a dialogue between the opposition and the Syrian government.
Maliki said on board the plane, which was moving from the U.S. to Iraq prior to arrival to Baghdad "as soon as I arrive I will convene a meeting to prepare plans to send a delegation to Syria to implement the initiative of Iraq."
He explained that the initiative of Iraq aims to open a dialogue between the parties to the Syrian opposition on the one hand, and the government Syria on the other hand, to reach a satisfactory outcome for both sides.
He said Maliki, who landed his plane at about 11.30 (08,30 GMT) in Baghdad, "America and Europe Mtchwican from the stage after the regime of Bashar al-Assad, so understand the initiative" in Iraq.
I had to Moussawi, an adviser to Prime Minister of Iraq, said in an earlier told AFP that the Iraqi authorities called on the Syrian opposition to visit Baghdad in order to mediate between them and the Syrian regime, pointing out that the opposition responded positively to this proposal.
This came after Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told a news conference with Secretary General of the League of Arab States, Nabil Arab in Baghdad that the Iraqi government will discuss with its counterpart Syrian implement the Arab initiative to end the violence in Syria.
has stayed the Iraqi authorities have so far adopted a cautious approach towards the crisis in Syria, where the United Nations announced that the crackdown on the protest by the system resulted in deaths of more than five thousand since March / March
and made al-Maliki Monday position distinct from the American position demands ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in a joint press conference with President Barack Obama.
Maliki said: "We are not against the aspirations of the Syrian people and the aspirations of any other people, But it is not my right to ask the President to step down, we do not want to give ourselves this right, "adding that" Iraq is a country on the borders with Syria, and I care about the interests of Iraq. "
and the complexity of the Arab Ministerial Committee of the file Syrian Saturday meeting in Cairo at the level of Foreign Ministers to respond to the proposal Syria's approval to send observers to Syria in return for lifting sanctions imposed on that Arab country. For its part, assured the parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee that the Iraqi government to take care of mediation between the Syrian opposition and the Syrian government because of its effects on national security, the internal one hand, and on Iraq's status among Arab countries on the other. A member of the Committee approved stapes in a statement: that, unfortunately, began to interest late but I hope that what we have missed an opportunity in this regard, noting that follow-up to the Syrian file and listen to the view of the opposition and listening to the point of view of the Syrian government is should be a priority of the Iraqi authorities .
He added that interest in the file Syrian although it came late in Iraq, but is put in the Foreign Relations Committee also put forward in the government, adding that the Foreign Relations Committee in the Parliament does not deal with Syrian affairs that Syria, an Arab country and the Syrian people's brother, and race a member of the University but deal out of that situation, the Syrian and the development of the Syrian arena is closely linked to national security and national security of Iraq. The stapes is that the Iraqi government is accompanied by the decision which the executive branch and on the decision of the implementation of the Syrian mediation, while the Parliament was content to raise the issue by arguing that it must be there to listen to the Syrian people through the presence of opposition as they have to listen to the Syrian government.
and on The decision to remove MKO Iranian opposition on Iraq, Maliki said he was "irreversible", describing the organization of "criminal gang."
Maliki said, "The decision to keep the Mujahideen Khalq, which has taken an irreversible, especially that this organization has prevented the representative of the United Nations ( Martin Kobler) from entering Camp Ashraf. "
"We have rejected the UN plan and that means it is a criminal gang, are not allowed to keep a criminal gang in Iraq."
Negotiations are currently underway to move the camp, which is supervised by the Mujahideen Khalq. And the Iraqi authorities decided to close the camp which is controlled by nearly thirty years Against Iranians in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, before the end of the year.
The Iraqi official announced that the goal first is the transfer of elements of the Mujahideen Khalq to another place, and then allow the UN to deal with those who have dual in order to take them to their second, to convey others to Iran or to other countries.
and, the camp, which lies 80 km north of Baghdad, about 3,400 people.
The crisis of the oil fields between Baghdad and the Kurdistan region confirmed al-Maliki said Exxon Mobil "and promised review its decision "on the oil contracts signed with the Kurdistan region and rejected by the Baghdad government.
Maliki said: "We held them to a meeting (in Washington) and Otalaanahm to put these contracts, some of which are in the disputed area."
"They are promised to reconsider their decision." An official in the Iraqi Oil Ministry has confirmed that Baghdad is considering its options in relation to that Paxon Mobil signed an agreement with the government of Iraqi Kurdistan to explore oil in the six areas of the region .. Baghdad is the site of each contract without their consent, a contract is void. In the past, deprived of Baghdad, oil companies that have signed contracts in Kurdistan, Iraq, from bidding or signing contracts to other oil fields. The United States warned U.S. companies, including Exxon and Mobil, the oil giant of the legal risks to those contracts signed by other than the desire of Baghdad.
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