[13:59] 12/Jan/13
Erbil Jan. 13 (PNA) - Fred Ossrd member of the leadership of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan led by Jalal Talabani, President of the Republic that «the issue of extradition of Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi is out at this stage before the National Conference to be held».
He told the Middle East that «this issue does not arise at all, it is not possible to hand over leadership of the region-Hashimi to the Iraqi authorities in such circumstances, and especially that this issue has its sides are the political and judicial systems.
He added that in fact, the Kurdish leadership does not want at this stage, accurate and sensitive, and Iraq is going through a major crisis, and relations between its components fester hour after hour, to be a party to the conflict or be dragged to it, so they do not want to take a decision to interpret the outcome as a bias for one party or component sectarian against the other, they want to distance itself from this conflict that took nature a Sunni - Shiite, and therefore the Kurdish leadership waiting for this conference and the decision to be taken on the status of Vice President Hashimi, since what comes out of the conference will be an Iraqi decision, in the sense that it would be Kordia a decision and a Sunni and a Shiite, then the decision will be binding on all political parties in Iraq as issued by the national reference ».
And on the statements made in the Kurdistan Region during the past three days on the participation of regional president Massoud Barzani or non-participation in the upcoming conference, said Ossrd «most likely will not attend President Massoud Barzani in the conference, according to indicators and statements issued by the presidency of the region, and therefore will be limited to participation high-level delegation will participate in all events and acts of Congress, leadership of Kurdish was waiting for the conference in Arbil, like Summit, held in the past and resulted in over a bigger crisis concerning the composition of the current Iraqi government, and it seems that the position of presidency of the region from the conference due to failure and rejection of a number of forces and the Iraqi parties conference was held in the region, it appears that the position of presidency of the region is a reaction to the positions of the Iraqi forces, and that will be participating in the lower level of the presidency of the region ».
On the composition of the delegation Kurdish said a member of the Steering Committee of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan «There is an attempt to involve representatives of the opposition Kurdish in the delegation, which is intended to represent the Kurdistan Region, a non-partisan office, especially that the subject matter the whole region, there are common positions of the majority of political forces to the crisis Iraq's current, which requires that reflected this unified approach to the Kurdish representation in Congress ».
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