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Iraqi President rejects call for Iraq
crisis conference
4.12.2006
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BAGHDAD, December
3, -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Sunday
rejected a suggestion for an international
conference on Iraq, saying Iraqis alone should
decide the fate of their nation.
Talabani, a Sunni Kurd, was the second Iraqi leader
in as many days to oppose the suggestion by U.N.
Secrteray -General Kofi Annan, who said last week
that an international conference on Iraq could be
useful if the groundwork was carefully prepared and
all political parties could be brought together
outside Iraq.
Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, one of Iraq's top Shiite
politicians, said Saturday in Amman in neighboring
Jordan that it would be "unrealistic" to debate
Iraq's future outside the country and that Iraq's
elected government was the only party qualified to
find a solution to the conflict.
On Sunday, Talabani said he rejected Annan's
proposal, and added: "We are an independent and a
sovereign nation and it is we that decide the fate
of the nation." |
Iraqi
President : Jalal Talabani, a Kurd
Photo: Military |
The president's comments, reported in an E-mail sent
by Talabani's office, were made after he met in
Baghdad with congressman Christopher Shays, a
Republican representative from Connecticut.
AP
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