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Iraqi Parliament urges government to
recall Iraqi ambassador to Turkey
20.12.2006
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BAGHDAD, December
19, -- The Iraqi parliament's foreign relations
committee urged on Tuesday the government to recall
the country's ambassador to Turkey in protest
against its hosting of a conference on Iraq lately.
The committee demanded in a statement on Tuesday
"the summoning of Turkey's ambassador to Iraq and
notifying him of the Iraqi government's protest."
The committee called on the Iraqi prime minister
"not to send a delegation to Turkey within planned
dispatch of Iraqi delegations to neighboring
countries and to reconsider trade and economic ties
between Iraq and Turkey."
Turkey had hosted a conference on Iraq on December
13, held in Istanbul, with the aim of focusing on
Sunnis in the war-torn country. Iraqi and non-Iraqi
figures participated in the meeting.
The foreign relations committee said in its
statement that the activities and resolutions of the
conference "disregarded the Iraqi people's will
expressed in their free democratic elections."
The statement added "the resolutions even went so
far as to recommend support for recognizing the
legitimacy of violence that spills Iraqis blood and
destroys their infrastructure on a daily basis."
Iraq's government had on Thursday expressed regret
over Turkey's sponsoring of this conference.
Dr. Ali al-Dabbagh, the official spokesman for the
Iraqi government, in a press conference on Thursday,
said the Iraqi government expresses its regret over
the convening of the pro-people of Iraq support
conference in Turkey and believes that it is sending
a wrong message inside Iraq.
"This wrong message is actually translated into acts
of violence inside the country," said Dabbagh,
adding "such conferences are against the Iraqi
people."
The deputy speaker of parliament, in a consultative
session, asked the Sunni Iraqi Accordance Front to
announce its position regarding statements purported
to its leader Adnan al-Delaimi in a conference on
Iraq hosted recently by Turkey.
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