Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Allawi supports Barzani on flag removal
Politics
On Tuesday Iyad Allawi, a secular Shia and leader of the Iraqi National Accord (INA), supported Kurdistan's President Barzani's removal of the Iraqi flag - also regarded as the Baath flag. Allawi asked all political parties in Iraq to understand and sympathize with the removal of the Baath's flag in Kurdistan. He also requested the Iraqi parliament take on the removal of the Baath's flag urgently and discuss a potential new design that would represents all Iraqis. Article 12: of the Iraqi constitution states "The flag, national anthem, and emblem of Iraq shall be fixed by law in a way that represents the components of the Iraqi people".
Allawi was Prime Minister of Iraq's Interim Government from June 1, 2004 until April 7, 2005 when Ibrahim al-Jaafari took over the post. Allawi brought together many groups, including Secular Sunni groups, secular Shia groups and the Iraqi communist party Under one electoral list, the Iraqi national list for the January 05 elections.
