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No candidate
challenges Talabani - Media monitor
4.2.2006
Press from 2.Feb.2006
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No Candidate
Challenges Talabani
(Al-Mada)
Kurdistan Alliance member Fuad Masoom said there is
no candidate competing with (Iraqi president Jalal)
Talabani to become president. The alliance has
nominated Talabani to hold the post once again. If
there is another candidate who could win two-thirds
of the (parliamentary) votes, Masoom said the
alliance would withdraw (Talabani's nomination.)
Meanwhile, most of the members of the United Iraqi
Alliance (the leading slate in parliament) agreed to
name a candidate for prime minister on February 2.
Alliance member Abbas al-Bayati said members will
vote on a candidate because they could not
unanimously choose one.
(Al-Mada is
issued daily by Al-Mada institution for Media,
Culture and Arts.)
Poultry Farmers Demand Compensation
(Kurdistani Nwe)
A number of poultry farmers in the Sulaimaniyah
region organized a peaceful demonstration asking
(the government) to cull their birds and compensate
them. The farmers met with (Kurdistan Regional
Government) deputy prime minister Emad Ahmad at the
council of ministers' office (in Sulaimaniyah.) In a
meeting, the deputy prime minister promised that a
committee would be formed to estimate poultry
farmers' losses and compensate them. In a step to
prevent bird flu, (which was recently discovered in
Iraqi Kurdistan) the administration has started
killing birds in the area. So far thousands have
been killed.
(Kurdistani Nwe
issued daily by Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.)
No Veto for Any (Prime Minister) Candidate
(Baghdad)
Iraqi National List leader Ayad Allawi stressed on
the importance of having a national unity government
based on clear and vivid principles. Allawi (a
secular former prime minister who had ambitions of
become premier again) maintained that Iraq will be
destroyed if the government relies on sectarianism
to form the government. He clarified that he has no
(intention to) veto any candidate for prime minister
because his main concern is forming the national
unity government. He hoped that all political slates
would resolve their differences and agree to form a
government that better serves the people.
(Baghdad is a daily newspaper issued by the Iraqi
National Accord.)
Danish Ambassador Summoned
(Al-Iraq al-Yoom)
Iraqi foreign minister Hooshia Zeebari summoned the
Danish ambassador in Iraq and told him that the
Iraqi government denounces the Danish media's
disrespect of Islamic principles and their religious
symbols. He urged the ambassador to advise his
government that it should apologize to the Arab and
Muslim worlds to contain the crisis. The two sides
talked about bilateral relations and the Iraqi
government's appreciation of Danish forces in Iraq.
(Denmark's leading newspaper published caricatures
of the Prophet Muhammed, including one that one of
him wearing a bomb-shaped turban. Muslims consider
any images of Mohammad blasphemous.)
(Al-Iraq al-Yoom
is a weekly newspaper issued by Isra Shakir.)
US Rejects Insurgents' Conditions
(Al-Sabah)
Negotiations conducted in Syria, Jordan and Iraq
between the Americans and some armed groups ground
to a halt after US officials rejected some of the
insurgents' demands. They asked for a one-year truce
with US forces on the condition that the US military
pull half of its forces out of Iraq within a year;
allow some of the insurgents to hold posts in the
new government; and give more power to Sunni Arabs
in the next government. The Americans asked for five
years to pull out instead of one year. The
negotiators are Ba'athists, Islamists and
high-ranking former Republican Guard and
intelligence officers.
(Al-Sabah is a
daily independent publicly owned newspaper.)
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