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Iraq's President Jalal Talabani hopes to
reshape government within one week
10.4.2008
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April
10, 2008
BAGHDAD, -- Iraq's President Jalal Talabani
said on Wednesday that talks about reshaping the
Iraqi government were progressing and he hoped there
would be a new cabinet within a week.
Talabani said that he plans to meet with
Vice-President Tarek al- Hashimi and Prime Minister
Nuri al-Maliki to discuss the possibility of
including ministers from the Iraqi Accord Front, the
country's largest Sunni bloc, in the new cabinet.
"National unity can not be achieved without the
presence of the Sunni brothers," Talabani told
reporters in a press conference,www.ekurd.net
marking the fifth
anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.
He added: "I hope that ministers of the Iraqi Accord
Front would return quickly to the cabinet, because
the three focal points of a united government are
the Sunni Arabs, Shiite Arabs and the Kurds."
Talabani said he hoped that the move would be
achieved within one week. |
Iraqi President : Jalal Talabani, a Kurd |
Iraq's premier has been promising to reshape his
cabinet since the Iraqi Accord Front, and the Shiite
Sadr bloc withdrew from it in July.
The shaky coalition cabinet was shattered even
further by the withdrawal of ministers from smaller
blocs, which left it with 15 empty ministerial
seats, most of them from the Accord Front and Sadr
bloc.
Also on Wednesday, Talabani described the Sadrist
movement as "respectful."
He told reporters that many steps forward had been
taken to resolve the conflict between the government
and the Shiite movement of al-Sadr.
"We hope that the Sadrist movement would respond to
requests that demand the dissolution of the Mahdi
army and that they work as a respectful political
movement," Talabani said.
The government launched on March 25 an offensive
targeting mainly al-Sadr's militiamen in Basra but
halted military operations after al-Sadr moved to
halt fighting.
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