Saturday, October 6, 2012

Talabani being intensive meetings with the leaders of political blocs to launch a national dialogue

Saturday, October 6,



President Jalal Talabani met with a delegation from the Iraqi List led by Iyad Allawi yesterday evening, and the two sides discussed the current challenges and impediments to the political process in the country.

Talabani said during the meeting, according to a presidential statement, the importance of launching practical steps to put an outline produce acceptable solutions to the issues of contention between the parties to the political process, and stressed the importance of respect for the judiciary and the sovereignty and safeguarding human rights and the rights of detainees and to prevent them from persecution through compliance by all the terms of the Constitution.

Allawi stressed that the presence of the president on the political arena is an urgent need being a "safety valve for the country", while denied the Iraqi List to receive an official invitation to attend the national meeting.

And threatened a coalition of state law by resorting to the option of early elections in the event of Iraqi insistence on its position to attend the meeting.

The professor of political science at the University of Baghdad Osama Saidi believed that the president is trying through meetings intensive holds with leaders of political blocs to reach a shared vision between the blocs to resolve the current political crisis, said in an interview with "Radio Sawa" The Iraqi List, suffering from crisis Dkhalah is the conflicting statements released by leaders in the list about important issues.

He also said political writer Hamza Mustafa said the meeting Talabani, Allawi comes within the efforts of the president to persuade the Iraqi leader attended the national meeting prospective ruled Mustafa in connection with "Radio Sawa" the possibility of holding a meeting between Allawi and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in the near future.