Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Committee to meet on constitution amendment next month
Politics
(VOI) The committee reconsidering items in the Iraqi constitution will hold its coming meeting next March, a Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition (UIC) member of parliament said on Monday."Most members of the committee are now attending workshops outside Iraq over constitutional matters," Sami al-Aaskari told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) by telephone.The forthcoming meeting, he added, will "envisage proposals tabled by different parties on amendments of certain items in the Iraqi constitution." In light of these recommendations there will be consultations among political blocs in this respect, he said.
The Iraqi Parliament had set up a committee in November 2006 to reconsider certain constitutional items and that it should finalize its work in a period not more than four months, not including the legislative recess.The committee is composed of 29 members representing the Iraqi political and ethnic spectrum. The members elected Sheikh Hammam Hammoudi of the UIC as chairman, Fouad Maasoum of the Kurdistan Coalition, the second largest parliamentary bloc, as vice chairman and Abbas al-Bayyati of the UIC as rapporteur.
Labels: amendment, constitution, Sami al-Aaskari, UIC
