Iraq’s political forces close to form national-partnership govt., Kurdistan PM says

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: North Iraq‘s Kurdistan government’s premier, Burham Saleh, has stated on Wednesday that the political forces in Iraq are witnessing closer understanding towards the main issues that prevent joining together to form a government of national-partnership, adding that he who shall gain the new prime minister‘s post must be ready to deal seriously with the constitutional rights, including the areas of conflict, according to the constitutional rights. “The situation won’t remain in a frozen state, because there are legitimate rights demanded by the Constitutional Court, including the holding of the Iraqi Parliament in the nearest possible time, along with serious consultations carried out by Kurdistan Region’s President, Massoud Barzani, and the Kurdistan Coalition‘s delegation with all Iraqi blocs, in which we had reached important understandings, but we are waiting for the completion of that, in the light of the Constitutional Court‘s rights and necessity to hold the new Parliament session,” Saleh told the Saudi Middle East Newspaper today. He went on saying: “There are significant and important dialogues between the Kurdistan Coalition, led by Barzani and the National Coalition, led by (rime Minister and Leader of State of Law bloc), Brother (Nouri) al-Maliki, in which we had reached a close and good point about a large number of issues..And there are new understandings between us and the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, based on facing the mistakes of the former regime..And, the last meeting with (former PM and Chairman of al-Iraqiya bloc), Dr. Iyad Allawi, his Iraqiya delegation and President Barzani had been an important meeting that witnessed an openness and progress towards the Kurdistan Document.” “In the light of the preparations that and the preliminary meetings that took place among the Iraqi parties, we hope that they would be a serious support to for Barzani’s initiative and to reach a serious solution regarding the formation of a government of national-partnership,” Saleh said, adding that “Iraq can’t be ruled by one team; as any government should represent all the main political components, based on its activity, decisions and achievement of the Iraqi Constitution’s articles.” He stressed that “the differences about the leading State posts and reaching a settlement towards them is important, but the more important thing is laying a program for the government’s activity and the mechanism of taking decisions, i.e. to assign a prime minister or any of the leading posts that represent everybody, to act for the future of the country.” “We consider taking decisions individually and isolating others a catastrophe..That is why we confirm the importance of dealing with any problem, especially the one related to the concept of ruling as most significant,” he said, adding “from our viewpoint, we concentrate on forming a government of national-partnership, based on the constitution and depending on mechanisms and clear guarantees to prevent individuality of the authority, the security, political and economic decisions, thing that is the principle we depend to support the formation of the future Iraqi government.” Regarding the problem delaying the formation of the future government, Kurdistan Premier said: “The problem lies in difference, may be in expressions and words, but at the end, we are talking about important expressions in the mechanisms of decision-taking and the internal system of the Council of Ministers, as well as the means that secure non-repetition of some signs that create anxiety of different parties sharing in the political balance.” “There are constitutional rights that must be implemented, and he who shall gain the post of the new prime minister must be prepared to deal justly with the constitutional rights, represented in solving the issue of the areas in conflict (