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Iraqi parliament to debate reply to U.S.
Congress resolution on the division of Iraq
1.10.2007
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October
1, 2007
Baghdad, Iraq,-- The Iraqi parliament will
debate in its ordinary session on Tuesday the reply
to the U.S. Congress resolution on the division of
Iraq into three Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni entities,
parliamentary sources said on Monday.
"The debate about a reply to the U.S. Senate
resolution on the division of Iraq will be of top
priority in Tuesday's session," Dr. Hanin al-Qadou,
a legislator from the Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition
(UIC), said.
He expected the reply to be in "the form of a
statement by the Iraqi parliament on this issue in
view of the fact that enacting a legislation could
take a long time."
He pointed out that the matter does not even require
enacting a law because the content of the American
resolution flagrantly interfered in Iraq's internal
affairs, let alone its violation of the Iraqi
constitution.
Qadou noted that the Iraqi constitution guarantees
the country's "territorial integrity and national
sovereignty," adding the Congress' resolution "can
never change Iraq's settled national principles."
He said the U.S. resolution "only aimed to cause
Iraq to slide into the pits of a civil war only God
knows when it will end."
"It is the duty of all the national powers (in Iraq)
to reject such an insolent resolution and to quickly
announce their positions in the face of this
trivializing with the sovereignty of Iraq," he said.
Meanwhile, a media source in the Iraqi parliament
said the 11th session of the 2nd legislative term
will start on Tuesday to have the first and second
readings of a number of draft laws.
Seven clerical and parliamentary powers that have
the majority of the seats had called on Sunday for
dedicating a session to debate a U.S. resolution
that urged the division of Iraq.
The Senate resolution, which
won the majority of 75 votes against 23,
provides that Iraq would be divided into three
Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni entities with a federal
government in Baghdad undertaking the
responsibilities of border security and management
of oil proceeds.
The Senators who proposed the "non-binding" draft
resolution considered that it was the "only
solution" to grind to a halt acts of violence
sweeping the war-scarred nation.
Kurdistan Government in 'northern Iraq'
applauds the U.S. Senate
on passing the legislation for federal Iraq
VOI
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