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Monday, July 19th, 2010 10:54


Damascus: he met the leader of the Iraqi National List of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, leader Sadr Muqtada al-Sadr today in Damascus on Monday , after the interviews conducted by the two leaders separately with Syrian President Bashar al- Assad, has been discussed efforts to form a government of national partnership, while only The latter 's support for any agreement between the Iraqis will be the basis of maintaining Iraq's unity and Arab identity and sovereignty.



The leader of the Iraqi List of facilities for Allawi's visit to Damascus, Mohammed Allawi, the meeting took place for more than an hour between a delegation from the Iraqi head Iyad Allawi and the delegation of the Sadr movement headed by Muqtada al-Sadr have been discussed with him ways to accelerate the formation of a government national partnership includes everyone. "

And Allawi, "The meeting was attended by the Iraqi List Rafie al-Issawi and Osama Nujaifi and Mohammed Allawi also exist to the President Iyad Allawi's list , either by the Sadrists have come, Mr. Mustafa al-Yacoubi , Sheikh Walid Alkrimoi addition to the current leader Moqtada al- Sadr. "

Allawi stressed that " the meeting was very important which was to focus on the activation of joint committees between Iraq and the Sadr movement to develop programs form the next government within the framework of the existing alliance between the Iraqi National Coalition , which includes all Functions Sadrists and the Supreme Council and other components . "

Allawi said that " the joint committees between Iraq and the damage is present national basis and will be activated , and it will be studies of the reform of the governmental and parliamentary and judicial . "

He Allawi that "the joint committees will make an effort in their work in order to reach understandings before the end of the period for the session of the Parliament to elect the President of the Republic could lead to a declaration alliance between the two sides , "asserting at the same time that " al-Sadr did not give out any assurances Non- alliance with the state of law. "

And the leader of the Iraqi List and a close aide of Iyad Allawi, said the meeting between the latter and al-Sadr " does not mention either closely or remotely, to the question of the Alliance of State law with the Sadrists , "saying that " what has been addressed in the meeting goes beyond the talk of a rapprochement or the possibility of an alliance Sadr's movement with the state law under Maliki's nomination . "

The former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi had held prior to his meeting with al-Sadr held talks with Syrian President Bashar al- Assad, who received the net on Saturday, Moqtada al- Sadr.
For its part, according to official Syrian news agency ( SANA ) reported that Assad's meeting , Allawi focused on " efforts to form an Iraqi government, " she said, adding that Assad " renewed Syria's support for any agreement between the Iraqis will be the basis of preserving Iraq's unity and Arab identity and sovereignty. "

The agency said that Allawi "the price of hosting Iraqi refugees in Syria and expressed appreciation of Syria's stances supporting the Iraqi people and the efforts to preserve the unity of Iraq and restore security and stability in it. "
Assad was called, during a meeting Saturday Sayyid Muqtada al- Sadr, to accelerate the formation of a government in Iraq, while Sadr, turn on "the discretion of the Iraqis to the positions of Syria, which hosted the Iraqis since the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and continues to stand next to each of the Iraqi people and seeks to achieve security and stability in Iraq ".

It was leaked to the media said over the weekend that the invitation to Assad to Moqtada al-Sadr came to persuade the latter not to enter into an alliance with al-Maliki to form a government, a candidate in the settlement , Adel Abdul Mahdi, who has been widely accepted by both Syria and Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia , but at the same time faces strong disapproval of Sadr's movement .

Come visit me Allawi and al-Sadr to Syria in the light of the convergence between Maliki and the Sadrists began to talk about the media and behind the scenes , which emphasized a coalition of law that it was considering conditions and put the Sadrists for dialogue regarding the formation of the government , including the release of all detainees from the followers of Sadr's movement , including those sentenced to death , And came in conjunction with the crisis experienced by the National Coalition The selection of a candidate of its members and sponsors in order to compete with al-Maliki to choose one candidate for the National Alliance is to go by the Parliament.

According to the leader of the Iraqi National Coalition Hassan al-Shammari, the non-arrival of the leaders of the National Coalition to choose a candidate and go to a state law out of a single candidate of the National Alliance, will negotiate with the state of law on the provision of nominee Nuri al-Maliki as a candidate of the Alliance.

The political source revealed Saturday that the Iraqi National Coalition held an urgent meeting to discuss the cancellation of the nomination of Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Adel Abdul Mahdi as prime minister from the coalition after the failure of members of the coalition agreement on a provision of one to compete with al-Maliki , an alternative third cross- nominate a number of names, notably the Minister of Oil Ibrahim al- Bahr al-Ulum , and an independent member of the National Coalition Qasim Dawood , Minister of Finance Baqir al- Zubaidi and the current President of the National Congress Party, Ahmed Chalabi.


The announcement was the final for the National Coalition which formed a coalition between the state of law of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (89 parliamentary seats ) and the National Coalition headed by Ammar al-Hakim (70 parliamentary seats ) on 10 June after hours to meet the leader of al-Hakim cleric Grand Ali al-Sistani in Najaf.
Although the provision of the National Alliance and a document of the speaker of parliament, provisional Fuad Masum, confirms that the largest bloc in parliament and are entitled to form a government (159 seats out of 325) but still most of the components of the National Coalition rejects coalition candidate rule of law, Nuri al- Maliki, is now putting the new conditions Is that the candidate has to accept coalitions and other political forces , as well as the candidate to accept the government program to be established by the coalition.

According to the current political situation in Iraq and the insistence of all the political blocs not to proceed with the context in constitutional form a government and replace it with the three presidencies in one package , it is expected to compete for the candidate selected by the National Coalition candidate with a coalition of law , to enter the then National Alliance, one candidate to the Parliament Expected to held in 28 of the month.

The question being debated among the winners in the elections on the text of the constitutional entitlement Cluster winning the formation of the government, Iraqi constitution in accordance with Article 76 on the eligibility of the parliamentary majority of the formation of the government , while insisting coalition Iraqi (91 seats) that the text refers to the list of winning elections At the time of the rule of law is a coalition (89 seats) that the text means any farm that may arise as a result of a merger or alliance winning any of the blocks after the election