POLITICS: iya Alliance’s Spokesman says end of its boycott of Parliament, Govt. sessions depends on success of National Conference

POLITICS: Al-Iraqiya Alliance‘s Spokesman says end of its boycott of Parliament, Govt. sessions depends on success of National Conference BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Official Spokesman for al-Iraqiya Alliance, led by former Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, has said on Saturday that the end of its boycott to the Iraqi Parliament and Government depends on the success of the proposed National Conference for the leading political forces in the country.”Al-Iraqiya Alliance has discussed during its meeting on Friday, the steps that the negotiating committees have achieved to hold the National Conference and the road-map to lay down an agenda to settle the current political crisis and the position of al-Iraqiya to end its boycott of the Parliament and Government sessions,” Haidar al-Mulla told IraqiNews.com news agency.”Al-Iraqiya’s return toe the Parliament and the Council of Ministers depends on the holding of the National Conference and its positive decisions; that is why the issue remains to be an issue of discussion, in order to reach whether all the political blocs would achieve practical measures to hold that Conference,” he said.Al-Iraqiya Alliance had decided to boycott the sessions of the Council of Ministers and the Parliament, in protest to what it termed as “marginalization and isolation,” against the Alliance and the continuation of detentions against its members, though a number of its Ministers had attended a recent session of the Council of Ministers, whilst several other members had attended the meeting of the Parliament last week, forcing al-Iraqiya to fire 6 of its Legislatures, who attended that session.Iraq is witnessing an intensive political crisis in the background of charges against Vice-President, Tariq al-Hashimy, the leading member in al-Iraqiya Alliance with having been involved in terrorist acts and a decision by Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki to withdraw trust from his Deputy Prime Minister, Saleh al-Mutlaq, also a leading member of al-Iraqiya, at a time when several areas in Baghdad and other Iraqi provinces had witnessed a series of terrorist acts, that claimed the lives of hundreds of people over the past 2 weeks.SKH (PT)551