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Washington criticizes attempts to postpone the Iraqi elections
10/19/2013 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add a comment -
BAGHDAD - «life»
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Iraqi political sources said the «life» that U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden criticized, through connection with Parliament Speaker Osama Najafi, attempts to postpone the elections.
A statement of the Office of Najafi yesterday that «Biden praised the role of the Iraqi parliament in protection and promotion of democracy, and the parties agreed during a telephone call on the need to stop the escalating violence in the country, through the cooperation of all parties to the political process. They stressed the necessity of holding elections as scheduled.
added political source told «life» that Biden expressed Ngeevi of Washington's concern about the possibility of postponing the elections. The source pointed out that «the parties Iraqi delivered via the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad messages to the White House where a complaint of attempted political blocs to postpone the elections by blocking approval of the law».
said that the connection Biden Balngeevi that precedes the visit of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Washington early next month, «was a warning letter from the failure to pass the election law.
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Washington criticizes attempts to postpone the Iraqi elections
10/19/2013 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add a comment -
BAGHDAD - «life»
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Iraqi political sources said the «life» that U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden criticized, through connection with Parliament Speaker Osama Najafi, attempts to postpone the elections.
A statement of the Office of Najafi yesterday that «Biden praised the role of the Iraqi parliament in protection and promotion of democracy, and the parties agreed during a telephone call on the need to stop the escalating violence in the country, through the cooperation of all parties to the political process. They stressed the necessity of holding elections as scheduled.
added political source told «life» that Biden expressed Ngeevi of Washington's concern about the possibility of postponing the elections. The source pointed out that «the parties Iraqi delivered via the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad messages to the White House where a complaint of attempted political blocs to postpone the elections by blocking approval of the law».
said that the connection Biden Balngeevi that precedes the visit of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Washington early next month, «was a warning letter from the failure to pass the election law.
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