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Iraq's political blocs are making slow progress to resolve the political crisis
Monday, 16 December / 2 January 2012 00:09
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's political blocs held on Sunday, the first talks since the beginning of the crisis threatened to revive the sectarian violence and the collapse of the coalition government between the Sunnis and the Shiites and Kurds.
Tension is sought after the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for the arrest of Tariq al-Hashimi's Sunni vice president of Iraq, sparking a political crisis in the country after the departure of the last days of U.S. forces from Iraq in December.
And negotiate the political leaders on the national conference of the Shiite Alliance, the Iraqi National Coalition, led by al-Maliki and the Iraqi and Kurdish blocs are backed by the year in which shared government positions in their agreement to share power.
Maliki met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd and the Sunni speaker Osama al representative of the Iraqi bloc for a short time on Sunday and agreed to hold another meeting within a week but they did not agree on an appointment or to announce any details on the conference.
Bahaa al-Araji, the head of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who attended the meeting said they will start next Sunday a plan of action on the problems that Sinaakecunha.
Araji said that the committees formed by the major political blocs will need probably to a month to assess the problems and make an appointment.
The talks allow the continued survival of the government, but fundamental differences holiday to take decisions on important issues such as choosing the ministers of defense, interior and finish the vital oil since it was formed a year ago. Iraq had approached the brink of civil war in 2006 and 2007, when violence between Sunnis and Shiites killing thousands of people.
Although the tone of sharp statements, but Iraq's political things often go in a quieter during meetings and negotiations that take place in closed rooms. It took a power-sharing government nearly a year of negotiating positions after an inconclusive election in 2010.
Boycotted the mass of the "Iraqi" parliament sessions and has already rejected a number of ministers attend meetings of the government since the issuance of arrest warrant against Tarek al-Hashemi. But other ministers mass are still working, which reveals the depth of the divisions.
The violence has subsided after peaking after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, but attacks targeting Shi'ite pilgrims and other targets since the outbreak of the crisis raised concerns the country could slide back into sectarian violence.
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein after the invasion and take over the majority Shiite power feels marginalized much of the year after that were once the dominant force in the country.
Maliki says the charges against Hashemi of running a death squad allegations are judicial and not have any political motives. Often accuse Maliki hampering the work of its partners, the year the government.
Hashemi, who refused to deny the charges back to Baghdad from the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, saying he can not have a fair trial in the capital.
A spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council, the General Authority of the Federal Cassation Court on Sunday rejected a request Hashemi transfer his case to Kirkuk and decided to keep the case in Baghdad. Hashemi was tried in absentia
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Monday, 16 December / 2 January 2012 00:09
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's political blocs held on Sunday, the first talks since the beginning of the crisis threatened to revive the sectarian violence and the collapse of the coalition government between the Sunnis and the Shiites and Kurds.
Tension is sought after the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for the arrest of Tariq al-Hashimi's Sunni vice president of Iraq, sparking a political crisis in the country after the departure of the last days of U.S. forces from Iraq in December.
And negotiate the political leaders on the national conference of the Shiite Alliance, the Iraqi National Coalition, led by al-Maliki and the Iraqi and Kurdish blocs are backed by the year in which shared government positions in their agreement to share power.
Maliki met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd and the Sunni speaker Osama al representative of the Iraqi bloc for a short time on Sunday and agreed to hold another meeting within a week but they did not agree on an appointment or to announce any details on the conference.
Bahaa al-Araji, the head of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who attended the meeting said they will start next Sunday a plan of action on the problems that Sinaakecunha.
Araji said that the committees formed by the major political blocs will need probably to a month to assess the problems and make an appointment.
The talks allow the continued survival of the government, but fundamental differences holiday to take decisions on important issues such as choosing the ministers of defense, interior and finish the vital oil since it was formed a year ago. Iraq had approached the brink of civil war in 2006 and 2007, when violence between Sunnis and Shiites killing thousands of people.
Although the tone of sharp statements, but Iraq's political things often go in a quieter during meetings and negotiations that take place in closed rooms. It took a power-sharing government nearly a year of negotiating positions after an inconclusive election in 2010.
Boycotted the mass of the "Iraqi" parliament sessions and has already rejected a number of ministers attend meetings of the government since the issuance of arrest warrant against Tarek al-Hashemi. But other ministers mass are still working, which reveals the depth of the divisions.
The violence has subsided after peaking after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, but attacks targeting Shi'ite pilgrims and other targets since the outbreak of the crisis raised concerns the country could slide back into sectarian violence.
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein after the invasion and take over the majority Shiite power feels marginalized much of the year after that were once the dominant force in the country.
Maliki says the charges against Hashemi of running a death squad allegations are judicial and not have any political motives. Often accuse Maliki hampering the work of its partners, the year the government.
Hashemi, who refused to deny the charges back to Baghdad from the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, saying he can not have a fair trial in the capital.
A spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council, the General Authority of the Federal Cassation Court on Sunday rejected a request Hashemi transfer his case to Kirkuk and decided to keep the case in Baghdad. Hashemi was tried in absentia
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