Parliament’s Thursday session to initiate Iraqi State’s establishment – PM

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraq‘s Prime Minister and Leader of the State of Law Alliance, Nouri al-Maliki, has said on Wednesday that the Parliament’s session, scheduled to be held on Thursday, shall be “decisive,” and a beginning for the establishment of the Iraqi State, not only the formation of the new government. “The Parliament’s session shall be the last station for the course of steadfastness and persistence, and we shall not allow for the course of trouble-makers to revive once again, and to confiscate all the achievements that have been accomplished with the bloods shed by our martyrs,” Maliki said in a speech at the meeting of the General Commission for Iraq‘s National Coalition, and attended by IraqiNews.com News Agency. “We are here to express one voice and one decision; tomorrow, Thursday, shall witness the beginning of the establishment of the Iraqi State and not the formation of the government, that shall be established on basis that we have overcome a last part of,” Maliki added. The Iraqi Prime Minister admitted that “there are still many loopholes, but we must join together and bear responsibility, in order to prove that tomorrow, Thursday, shall clearly reflect our unity. Our current meeting including men and women, intends to continue the steadfastness, being the last bullet we shall fire on trouble-makers.” Maliki has called on “the others to contribute with him in his viewpoint, but the important thing is ‘who shall lay the first brick in the true base?..We hope it shall be us, as we have already achieved goals in the Iraqi sovereignty, hoping to reach the complete sovereignty.” “There are a lot of specifications that we must bear in mind, among them the challenge, taking into consideration that he who would not have patience would be defeated. We have to join patience with unity, that would give us a strong foundation. If we don’t understand the problem, we shall make wrong decisions and positions, and we have to consult each other to achieve steadfastness,” Maliki said. The Iraqi Prime Minister called for “the building of Iraq, which won’t be built by us alone, but we must invite others with nice feelings, because all Iraqis must cooperate to build their homeland and to participate in taking a decision, without alleging to have one foot in the government and another in the opposition.” SKH/SR 1