Thursday, July 28, 2011

Al Hashemi calls on Maliki to choose a candidate or a minister to take over the Iraqi Defense Agency

Al Hashemi calls on Maliki to choose a candidate or a minister to take over the Iraqi Defense Agency 

28/07/2011 7:23

. "Portal Iraqi" Baghdad - The leader of the Iraqi List, Tariq al-Hashemi, Thursday, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to choose a candidate by his list for the position of the Ministry of Defense, or one and the ministers who are within the ministerial team for the assumption of the office temporarily, as detect the presence of positive messages of the political blocs need to confirm to resolve outstanding issues. 

Tariq al-Hashimi said that "the issue of his candidacy for the office of the Ministry of Defence was the desire of some members of the Iraqi List, did not officially make the list this issue," noting that "Iraq has a list of candidates submitted to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is insisting on." 

He called al-Hashemi, Vice President of the Republic, "the Prime Minister to choose one of those characters one candidate or the Iraqi National List ministers who are now in the ministerial team to Atsnamwa of the office," asserting that "Tsenmanm for the position will be temporary until it settles," he says. 

Hashemi, who was confirmed in the 26 of July present, the Iraqi List, is nominated for the office of the Ministry of Defence, expressing at the same time ready for his accession to the approval of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, while confirming the Iraqi in the 24 of July evening, said Hashemi, who introduced himself as a candidate for the defense without Iraqi mandate to him, and pointed out that the list awaiting the response of the political blocs to be with the nomination officially. 

He is Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the security ministries acting since the announcement of the formation of the government is not completed in the atheist and the twentieth of December last, he issued the seventh of June, is commissioned by the national security adviser, Faleh al-Fayad, to take over the post of Minister of National Security Agency. 

He attributed the al-Maliki, on 16 March last, the reasons for the delay in presenting the names of candidates of the security ministries to the lack of political consensus on the names put forward, questioning the occurrence of that compatibility, while stressing that in the event of continuing disagreement topic will succumb to the quorum required to vote. 

And on the meetings of leaders of political blocs to resolve outstanding issues revealed the leadership in Iraq for "the existence of positive indicators still need to emphasize," adding that "Iraq needs to confirm that messages reached in this matter." 

The al-Hashemi that "the list is open and provided all that was on her," adding that "The ball is now in the court of others, and they have to make decisions on outstanding issues and it is not large or differences of radical and dogmatic, but disagreements over the naming of some characters in executive positions have been resolved and agreed upon in an initiative Barzani. " 

The Iraqi List, called, yesterday, a coalition of law in good faith and trust in others, while critical of statements by MPs from the coalition over the post of Defense Minister and the Council of senior policy, calling on the Government to devote efforts to build Iraq and finish the outstanding issues on implementation of the agreement Arbil. 

The Kurdistan Alliance, yesterday, that there are entities that do not show flexibility about the application of the terms of agreement Erbil, threatening to expose the party that does not adhere to this agreement, as pointed out that the confusion witnessed in the political arena and not to adopt flexible attitudes behind the postponement of the meeting of leaders of leaders of blocs.

Live country and a political crisis is not to complete formation of the government and the lack of agreement on the names of the ministers who will manage the security ministries now. 

The leaders of political blocs, on 20 June, at the home of Talabani, meeting the absence of the leader of the Iraqi List, Iyad Allawi, leader of the National Alliance Ibrahim Jaafari and President of the House of Representatives Osama Najafi and Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani, while the second meeting was held on the ninth of July present, the presence of leaders and representatives of the blocks Political and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Allawi and President Najafi and the Islamic Supreme Council Ammar al-Hakim. 

Formed political blocs, the Tripartite Commission for agreement on a draft of the National Council for the strategic policy of Upper and submit a draft law to parliament, consisting of MP Hassan Sinead, the National Alliance, the Attorney Rafie al-Issawi, the Iraqi List and the Kurdistan Alliance MP Ruz Nuri Shawis. 

And declared the presidency, last Tuesday, the postponement of the meeting of leaders of political blocs to next Saturday, attributed the reason to concern the meetings of the House of Representatives, noting that the decision came at the request of a group of those blocks. 

And suspended the Iraqi List, on July 21 the current negotiations with a coalition of state law because of the lack of consensus in his statements, indicating that it was agreed on the political balance at the last meeting of the leaders of political blocs, but the state law fell on the second day without knowing the reasons, with renewed MP for the existing unit Jumaili threat of withdrawal of confidence from the government and early elections as a pressure for the implementation of agreements Erbil.

And spin differences between the Iraqi List and the National Alliance on some of the terms of the Erbil, including the draft Law on the Council strategy policies and higher, and most important of these differences mechanism of selection of the President of the Council, as the demands of the Iraqi List to be the mechanism of choice in the House of Representatives, which rejected the National Alliance and demanded to be within the body that are within the Council, in addition to winning the dispute about the powers of the President of the Council and the status enjoyed by the general secretary or president. 

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