Hashemi: reconciliation with al-Maliki is no longer possible
On: Wednesday 1/4/2012 9:52
Baghdad / term
Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said in an interview with the magazine "Newsweek" America took what she called the magazine "national crisis and fragile democracy in Iraq", "The reconciliation with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is no longer possible." In the interview, which took place at the headquarters of a military near the city of Sulaymaniyah,
Quoted "Newsweek" about al-Hashemi, "he said," I am committed to the peaceful political process .. Given my address to the Iraqis and Americans ... and if I was driving death squads and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki knows that three years ago, he says, so why let me kill all these people all these years? ".
Hashemi said the magazine pointed out that he resides hosted by President Jalal Talabani, "After eight years of reconciliation, we thought that Iraq is turning into a country that has an identity, and not to a mixture of ingredients ... Maliki pave the way politically, to monopolize. "
magazine pointed out that the current crisis may spark a confrontation between Iraqi factions against each other, which may lead to undermining democracy.
and warned Hashemi that "if the al-Maliki as prime minister, the Republican would be worried about his future inside Iraq and is seriously considering the establishment of areas of the province. "
She drew the U.S. magazine that what concerned the Iraqis and regional powers such as Turkey, the scenario is darker, a return to sectarian violence like the one lived Iraq during the past decade.
In conclusion, Hashemi said that the Americans "left much behind ... I left my country the United States outside the scope of the challenges our ability to resolve ... Maliki can not be part of the solution ... We can not reach a reconciliation with the Maliki anymore .. Can anyone in the National Coalition to replace him, but he must be a believer in the rule of law, and the future of institutions and the sharing of power. "
For his part, close to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, that the government authority executive is obliged to implement decisions made by the Iraqi judiciary.
and Kamal-Saadi told Kurdish news agency, "declared from the outset that the issue of al-Hashemi is a judicial matter and not for anyone to get involved, and the judiciary is the sole owner of the decision of conviction or acquittal or transfer of the case or not."
said Saedi, that "the attitude of the executive power of judicial decisions is not of a political nature, but the position of executive tactical technical ,(...) the government had to implement all judicial decisions. "
Hashemi and pledged in the Kurdistan region since more than two weeks to appear in court in case he had the, and a description of the judiciary in Baghdad that he lacks the independence and subject under the influence of the executive branch.
In the same context, he received the Supreme Judicial Council a request from the Hashemite transfer his case to the Court of Appeal of Kirkuk and referred it to the Federal Court of Cassation for consideration.
A spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council, Abdul Sattar Bayraktar in a press statement received by {Euphrates News} a copy of it yesterday that "Tariq al-Hashimi submitted a request to the Supreme Judicial Council yesterday he wants to transfer the case investigative against him from the court of inquiry central to the resumption of Kirkuk has referred the Supreme Judicial Council, the request to the Federal Court of Cassation for consideration based on the validity set forth in paragraph (b) of Article 55 of the Code of Criminal Procedure . "
The Supreme Judicial Council has issued an arrest warrant for Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, after recognition of a number of his bodyguards committing armed operations against civilians and security elements in implementation of the Awamralhashima is that Hashemi announced his refusal to comply with this memorandum demanding the transfer of his trial to the Kurdistan region, which is currently being at the time considered officials in Kurdistan that Hashemi guest on the region.
and offered the Ministry of the Interior the confessions of members of the protection Hashemi implemented a series of armed operations against elements of security and government officials and visitors to the holy shrines.
calls into question the coalition in Iraq a lot in the accusations against Hashemi and considered it targeted politically. and recently submitted a memorandum to eliminate the appeal.
being Iraqi politicians talk to contain the situation for fear of exacerbating the crisis that could push Iraq back into the midst of sectarian turmoil or collapse of the fragile political process in conjunction with the withdrawal of the last American troops.
The Supreme Judicial Council announced yesterday the first safety measures taken in the case of Vice-President of the Republic Tareq al-Hashemi by the judiciary issue of five of the judges and public prosecutors, and decided to increase the judges to nine of the various components of Iraq.
mentions, that a judiciary source said yesterday that "the judiciary, the problem of follow-up file of the vice president, is the largest in the history of the Iraqi judiciary ", comparing them to those being adopted, while up cases to the Court of Cassation.
The source, who preferred not to be named "The High Judicial and through his committee wanted to cut all the doubts raised about the issue of al-Hashemi have resorted to the composition of the judicial committee will be representatives from all walks of people Iraq so that there is any possibility of politicizing the issue. "
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