“Several suspended issues were not settled” VP

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: Iraq‘s Vice-President and leader in al-Iraqiya Alliance, Tareq al-Hashimi, has said on Monday that “several suspended issues were not settled by the negotiating committees, in his speech in Arbil Meeting of Iraq‘s political blocs, called by Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani. “We, in al-Iraqiya, as its Chairman (Iyad Allawi) said in his speech, understand our political responsibilities, and support the formation of a government of national-partnership, based on the elections results, which we described as ‘exceptional’, and we had always said in the past that we are in need of a real revision of the political process, in order to avoid falling in problems,” Hashimi said. “The current time must be based on carrying out serious dialogues to discuss the suspended issues, which we hope, provided that Kurdistan be open towards Iraq and to complete what happened in Baghdad,” he added. SKH/SR 1