Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Iraqi VP says political process needs to be revised
Politics, Security
Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi said the political process on Iraq was hastily imposed on the Iraqis and it needs a revision to correct the wrong paths that surrounded the process. “The current political process was hastily imposed on the Iraqis after the (former) Iraqi state disintegrated,” Hashemi said in a statement issued by his office on Monday. “There is a need to correct the wrong paths that surrounded the political process and revise many pieces of information that were taken for granted,” said the statement received by the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
Hashemi’s comments came during a meeting with the French ambassador in Iraq John Francois Jerome who expressed his alarm at the worsening security situation in the country and said the French government was willing to play a role in developing dialogue between Iraqis sides. Hashimi said, "Iraq badly needs a strong but fair government that has national armed forces with which it can impose order and security away from sectarian and (political) allegiances and loyalties. If the bad situation continues, then the country would be drawn into a civil war,” he warned. Both Hashemi and the ambassador stressed “the necessity of putting a timetable for withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq and building a government with balanced and strong institutions,” the statement said.
