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Iraqi Kurdish parties criticise Barzani
and Talabani for joining a new alliance
17.8.2007
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August
17, 2007
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan region (Iraq), --
Leaders Kurdish parties said Friday they opposed the
formation of a four-way alliance of Kurdish and
Shiite parties which excluded the Sunnis.
In statements to the Kurdish al-Jarida newspaper,
the two Kurdish leaders Iraqi President and head
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Jalal Talabani
and Massoud Barzani head of the Kurdistan Democratic
Party (KDP) and President of Kurdistan region were
criticised for
joining a new alliance
without getting back to the members of Council of
Political Parties of Kurdistan.
'The two major Kurdish parties had no right to take
critical decisions on behalf of the Kurdish people
without conferring with Kurdistan's political
parties' high councils,' head of Kurdistan Islamic
Union, Salah ad-Din Muhammad Bahaa al-Din, said.
Kurdistan Communist Party leader Kamal Shaker
considered the new alliance as a continuation of the
policy of dividing the leadership in Iraq, which he
charged would lead Iraq into a sectarian war.
Islamic Group of Kurdistan (IGK) head Ali Bapir said
that the Council of Political Parties of Kurdistan
did not agree that the KDP and the PUK should
establish a moderate alliance without the Sunnis'
participation.
'Shiite parties failed in managing the government
since late Saddam Hussein was overthrown,' Bapir
noted. 'A Kurdish-Shiite alliance means that Kurds
share all the mistakes and problems occurring in the
past years.'
On Thursday, the heads of the main Shiite and
Kurdish parties said they had agreed on the
formation of a 'front of moderate forces.'
However, this 'front' consisted only of the four
parties which have already been working closely
together since the US liberation in spring 2003 -
the Kurdish parties KDP and PUK, the Dawa Party and
the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC).
Radical Shiites, Sunnis and secular forces were not
involved.
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