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The White House said President Barack Obama telephoned Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to discuss the United States' commitment to work with the new government in Baghdad to help in the fight against Islamic militants, state regulation.
The White House said in a statement, "agreed the President and the Prime Minister on the importance of the new government to take concrete steps quickly to deal with legitimate grievances and aspirations of the Iraqi people."
The statement continued, "the Prime Minister expressed his commitment to work with all communities in Iraq as well as regional and international partners to strengthen the capacity of Iraq to fight this common enemy."
For his part, praised the American Secretary of State, John Kerry, the formation of the new government in Baghdad, he said that "a large and important event" for Iraq.
Kerry said to reporters at the Foreign Ministry, "by overcoming the obstacle ethnic and sectarian divisions Iraq's parliament approved a new government is not finding someone to have the ability to unite all of Iraq's communities in order to Iraq a strong and unified Iraq and to give these communities the opportunity to build a future desired and deserved all Iraqis."
Kerry added that he would travel to the Middle East Tuesday, "to build a broader coalition of partners around the world to confront the Islamic state and its defeat in the end."
And Iraq's parliament approved a new government headed by Haidar al-Abbadi on Monday evening in an attempt to save Iraq from collapse amid mounting sectarian tensions.
The government included members of al-Abadi Shiite majority and the Kurds and Sunnis. The new prime minister begins a difficult task to unite the country after the organization of the Islamic state captured this summer on large areas of northern Iraq.
He asked al-Abadi, who took over in August 11th prime minister, replacing Nouri al-Maliki, give him a week to fill the vacant ministries, including the ministries of interior and defense, pointing out that he himself will be bags available in the meantime.
In the same context, praised the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to form a new Iraqi government, headed by Haidar al-Abadi and give them confidence by the parliament and called for filling positions that are still vacant without delay.
Ban said, as quoted by his spokesman, said the parliament's decision to grant the new government trust constitutes a "step forward toward political stability and peace" in Iraq.
He demanded all Iraqi political leaders to "continue to cooperate and come to a decision without delay" on the appointment of the ministers of defense and interior.
I take it, Jordan's King Abdullah II, on Tuesday, that the formation of a new government in Iraq, headed by Haidar al-Abbadi, "an important step" toward "strengthening the unity" and "national consensus", according to a statement issued by the Jordanian Royal Court.
The statement quoted King Abdullah as saying that "Jordan supports all efforts to promote the unity of Iraq and to reach a national consensus about the various challenges facing the Arab country."
He explained that "the formation of the new Iraqi government, headed by Haidar al-Abbadi, which won the confidence of parliament on Monday poured an important step in this direction, and must be built upon for the benefit and interest of Iraq and strengthen the sovereignty and unity of its people with the participation of all political strength and its components."
Iraq is facing great pressure internationally to agree on a government university to unite the various components of the Iraqi society in the face of fierce attacks by al hardline Islamic state, which controlled vast areas of Iraq since June.
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