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Iraq's parliament adjourns until September
30.7.2007
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July
30, 2007
BAGHDAD, -- Iraq's parliament closed for its
summer recess on Monday, lawmakers said, deciding to
take a break until early September despite having
failed to enact a series of laws demanded by
Washington.
"Parliament has decided to break until early
September," Hussein Falluji of the mainly Sunni
Accordance Front bloc in parliament said.
"We have already cut the holiday by one month. It is
our constitutional right to take it," he added.
The recess means parliament will resume just before
U.S. military commander General David Petraeus and
Ambassador Ryan Crocker are due to report back to
Congress on the success of this year's surge in U.S.
troops to Iraq.
A preliminary White House assessment earlier this
month faulted Iraqi leaders for failing to enact
laws aimed at curbing violence, including measures
to distribute oil revenue, hold provincial elections
and loosen restrictions on members of Saddam
Hussein's Baath party returning to public life.
Reuters
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