Maliki: We do not want anti-Turkey and Erbil, straining our differences with the state
10/05/2012 16:57
Erbil, May 10 / May (Rn) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Thursday said his government does not want anti-Turkey against the backdrop of recent tensions, and pointed out that the differences with the struggling state of Arbil.
The strained relations between Iraq and Turkey on the back of an arrest warrant for Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, who said that Ankara is trying to provoke sectarian Maliki through it.
Baghdad has rejected Turkey's remarks and said it interference in internal affairs. The police issued international arrest warrant for al-Hashemi, but Turkey refused to hand him over.
Maliki said in an interview with the TV. R. T Kurdish and publish its official, excerpts of which "do not want the anti-Turkey or Iran or Saudi Arabia or America, nor any other country."
Al-Maliki's Remarks on the relations with Turkey.
Maliki said in the interview recorded in Baghdad and broadcast later that Turkey "is a neighbor and we have limits and with common interests and that the balance of trade with a 13-15 billion dollars."
Maliki rejected the Turkish statements on his country by saying "what happened from the positions and statements issued by the Turkish side have nothing to do with the rules of mutual respect between countries."
He spoke al-Maliki, who leads a coalition of state law for the crisis and said he should hold the national conference called by the country's president Jalal Talabani to "put all the problems and address them according to the Constitution."
When asked about the differences with the government of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Maliki said that "the more the differences that strain the state is the differences with the Kurdistan Regional Government."
And threatened the Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani and the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and the President of the coalition in Iraq, Iyad Allawi, House Speaker Osama Najafi in Arbil meeting held in late April last to withdraw confidence from the Maliki has not stopped the policy of domination in the decision.
The leaders agreed in a letter to the four eight demands to be implemented by 13 May to ensure their support for the Maliki government.
The letter says that in case of refusal to abide by the principles and frames of this agreement will take practical steps within a period not exceeding 15 days to conduct a vote of confidence in the government.
In this letter, dated 28 April, which is the last day of a mini-summit held four leaders for three days during which they said they had tried to reach a solution to the political impasse in the country.
Maliki said that "the meeting of Irbil attempt to end the meeting (conference) National ... some who were at the meeting from which they want to target a specific person," a reference to it.
Murtaza Yousuf
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10/05/2012 16:57
Erbil, May 10 / May (Rn) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Thursday said his government does not want anti-Turkey against the backdrop of recent tensions, and pointed out that the differences with the struggling state of Arbil.
The strained relations between Iraq and Turkey on the back of an arrest warrant for Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, who said that Ankara is trying to provoke sectarian Maliki through it.
Baghdad has rejected Turkey's remarks and said it interference in internal affairs. The police issued international arrest warrant for al-Hashemi, but Turkey refused to hand him over.
Maliki said in an interview with the TV. R. T Kurdish and publish its official, excerpts of which "do not want the anti-Turkey or Iran or Saudi Arabia or America, nor any other country."
Al-Maliki's Remarks on the relations with Turkey.
Maliki said in the interview recorded in Baghdad and broadcast later that Turkey "is a neighbor and we have limits and with common interests and that the balance of trade with a 13-15 billion dollars."
Maliki rejected the Turkish statements on his country by saying "what happened from the positions and statements issued by the Turkish side have nothing to do with the rules of mutual respect between countries."
He spoke al-Maliki, who leads a coalition of state law for the crisis and said he should hold the national conference called by the country's president Jalal Talabani to "put all the problems and address them according to the Constitution."
When asked about the differences with the government of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Maliki said that "the more the differences that strain the state is the differences with the Kurdistan Regional Government."
And threatened the Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani and the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and the President of the coalition in Iraq, Iyad Allawi, House Speaker Osama Najafi in Arbil meeting held in late April last to withdraw confidence from the Maliki has not stopped the policy of domination in the decision.
The leaders agreed in a letter to the four eight demands to be implemented by 13 May to ensure their support for the Maliki government.
The letter says that in case of refusal to abide by the principles and frames of this agreement will take practical steps within a period not exceeding 15 days to conduct a vote of confidence in the government.
In this letter, dated 28 April, which is the last day of a mini-summit held four leaders for three days during which they said they had tried to reach a solution to the political impasse in the country.
Maliki said that "the meeting of Irbil attempt to end the meeting (conference) National ... some who were at the meeting from which they want to target a specific person," a reference to it.
Murtaza Yousuf
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