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Iraqi PM dismisses threat of civil war
12.7.2006
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ERBIL,
Kurdistan-Iraq, July 11, 2006 , -- Prime Minister
Nuri al-Maliki dismissed on Tuesday the risk of Iraq
plunging into civil war despite the recent burst of
sectarian violence tearing apart Baghdad.
"I don't see the country falling into a civil war
despite the regrettable activities of certain people
who ignore that Iraq is united," he said during a
visit to the northern city of Erbil, capital of the
Kurdistan autonomous region.
"The security services are still in control of the
situation and we would like to see matters move
towards political (compromise) and rather than
resort to force," he added.
"We have the capacity, if necessary, to impose order
and suppress those who rebel against the state," he
told a press conference. |
Iraqi Prime minister Jawad al-Maliki
Photo:AP |
Maliki said the sensitive issue of militias could be
resolved in the context of a national reconciliation
by involving their members in the reconstruction of
the country.
The prime minister also denied there were any
differences between the central government and the
Kurdish regional administration on oil extraction in
the wake of recent discoveries in the north.
"A Kurdish delegation will come to Baghdad to agree
on a single law for oil that will apply to the
entire country," he said.
The current legislation on oil, inherited from a
period of nationalization in 1972, bans the
participation of foreign companies in the sector,
while the Kurds are looking to attract foreign
investment to exploit their oil reserves.
At the same press conference, the head of the
northern administration, Nechirvan Barzani, Prime
Minister of Kurdistan-Iraq said that relations
between the government and the north must be founded
on the constitution.
AFP
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