Source: Kurds are not mediators in the case of al-Hashemi, but partners in the political process
On: Wednesday 25/1/2012 8:05
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Minister of Culture, Youth and spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government, on Tuesday, the issue of al-Hashemi on the elimination of Iraq, indicating that the Kurds are not a mediator in the case, but partners in the political process in Iraq and part of it.
The Kawa Mahmoud told a news briefing on the sidelines of the signing ceremony of a book researcher Abdel Hussein Shaaban, who by Dar Al-Aras for printing and publishing in Arbil, "The Kurds are keen to all the problems of Iraq because they are part of the political process and we respect the Iraqi judiciary and the issue of al-Hashemi his own", following up by saying "There is aside judicially and there is a political aspect and we are keen to resolve the issue in accordance with the foundations of a political, peaceful and democratic because we are part of the political process."
and Iraq is now a political crisis against the backdrop of a request from Maliki's recent Iraqi Council of Representatives may withdraw confidence from prominent politician Saleh al-Mutlaq, a deputy prime minister on the basis that he lacked confidence in the political process.
As announced in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior (119/12/201) for the issuance of arrest warrant against Tarek al-Hashemi in accordance with Article 4 (terrorism), as offered to the confessions of three members of the protection of al-Hashemi in which they assigned by the Hashemi, to carry out assassinations and detonate explosive devices since 2009.
Hashemi denied the charges against him and questioned the confessions offered by the Iraqi television station on Monday to protect individuals from said they were "carrying out the killings on his orders," and demanded the transfer of the investigation to the Kurdistan region.
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