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his message, Talabani expressed his resentment
towards Al Ja'fari's creation of 9 ministerial
committees, all connected to him and consequently
"converting the Prime Minister deputies to ministers
without a job or work", referring to the Kurdish
deputy Prime Minister, Ruz Shawis.
Talabani considered that as "an assault against the
rights of the representatives of the Kurdish people
and the national accord." In the 6th paragraph of
the message, Talabani criticized Al Ja'fari for
"specifying the competence of ministers, including
Dr. Barham Saleh, without a legal justification or a
right." He considered this procedure as
"deprivation" of "half of his rights, instead of
adding other rights, as agreed upon, with the
coalition, immediately after the creation of the
government." The 6th paragraph has also referred to
"alienating the Kurdish ministers from everything
related to economy, money and armed forces." The
message described Al Ja'fari's decision to release
all Iranian prisoners, without consulting the
ministry and the republic presidency, as "illegal
decisions".
Talabani stated, "The legal violations" of Al
Ja'fari and accused him of "neglecting the reality
of the ministry", which is "a part of the
government. You act as if the government is only
you, and you restrict its competence into your own
identity", which he considered as a plain violation
of the text of the two articles 24 and 25 of the
state administration code, which state "the
government consist of the state presidency, the
National Assembly presidency, the premiership and
the ministers' council and that setting the
government policy is the duty and competence of the
three authorities, not only the prime minister."
Talabani added, "Unfortunately, we noticed that you
ultimately neglect the presidency council and the
National Assembly presidency."
As regards the program of Al Ja'fari's government,
the message referred to the violation of this
program "of the accord principle, pursuant to the
section of article 1, which necessitates accord in
taking basic political, security, economic and
administrative decisions. In addition, the program
neglects the provisions of article 3, relating to
the agreement of the Shiite Coalition with the
Kurdistani Alliance."
As for Kirkuk, Talabani considered the Prime
Minister's practical situations in his decisions
"relating to stopping the cashing of the necessary
sum for normalization in Kirkuk, as you are
practically taking an opposing and conflicting
stand, if not hostile, against the rights of Kurdish
people in Kirkuk." He pointed out that the text of
section 2 "article 4" of the state administration
code, necessitates that the transitional government,
"within a period of not more than one month of its
creation, should activate the normalization
procedures, including the provision of finance for
the council of normalizing conditions in Kirkuk and
the property dispute council."
Talabani considered Al Ja'fari's negligence of
Kirkuk issue "as a very crucial matter, which should
not be left intact on behalf of the Kurdistani
Coalition."
Within the same context, Joan Fouad Ma'sum,
communication minister, (from the Kurdistani
Alliance), confirmed that Al Ja'fari "did not
correct (did not adopt) any of the sections of
Talabani's message, so far." "We did not discuss
these topics in the ministers' council in any way
until now."
She denied her knowledge of decisions issued by Al
Ja'fari, in the name of the ministers' council,
including a decision relating to the existence of
the multinational forces, or his decision to
"release Iranian prisoners in Iraq".
At the end of his message to Al Ja'fari, Talabani
stressed, "The necessity of executing the state
administration code for the transitional period and
sticking to the agreement signed between the
Kurdistani Alliance and the Shiite Coalition." He
demanded him to stress various matters, including,
"coordination and cooperation with the Iraqi
government authorities (the presidency council, the
National Assembly presidency and the ministers'
council), setting a clear system, through which the
three government authorities would execute their
duties, which are stated in article 25 of the state
administration code and that the Prime Minister
should immediately activate the procedures of
normalization in Kirkuk, including the provision of
necessary money for the work of the normalization
council and the property dispute council."
He also demanded him to issue orders to the finance
ministry "to free the grant, designated for Kirkuk
province from the former government and taking legal
procedures to cancel the decisions of the dissolved
revolution command council, to adopt the policy of
racial elimination." He called him to "work in
accordance with the state administration code and
the articles of the agreement signed between the
Shiite Coalition and Kurdish Alliance, so that
brotherhood and cooperation would continue among us
and so that we would not be forced to use our right
in article 6 of the agreement protocol." He pointed
out, "We cannot keep silent and accept posing the
fait accompli on us, contrary to law and the
agreement."
Abdul Wahed Te'ma
Al Hayat
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