Allawi: To ensure the future of Iraq requires concessions
Posted 29/06/2010 08:00 AM
WASHINGTON (Agencies): the leader of the coalition, "Iraq," former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Tuesday that Iraq is now living a new phase requires to make concessions in order to preserve the stability of the country and its future.
Allawi said in an interview with the "free" to "stage now .. a new stage, again, an important stage of the course of Iraq and Iraq's future for several reasons, which requires more compromise and more assured of the latest and more trust-building processes and modern dilemmas openly and clearly."
It is said that Iraq is experiencing a political crisis have so far prevented form a new government, despite the passage of nearly four months after the legislative elections on the seventh of March.
Has been resolved and the list of Allawi, the first prize which is what made him think it is right to form a government, with Prime Minister believes the outgoing Nuri al-Maliki said the right of the alliance, which is a coalition of state law to Maliki's coalition and the Iraqi national government formation come.
Allawi said that does not personally dispute between himself and al-Maliki. "Frankly, there is nothing personal between us and the Prime Minister ... but there is definitely a (otherwise) in the political side, meaning the program or curriculum."
"We come from different backgrounds .. and we participated in the government and the State President became prime minister but his government, we took part we disagree on the political approach."
He said Allawi, said that talk about benefits from a government and be the president of ministers has become an obstacle to the political process in the period after the elections.
"The nature of the situation now reveal that the rule of law and the National Coalition was attributable This means that the order in which signs of unhealthy, and the time to sit down and recognize the election results and say if the benefit was so let's talk issues, projects and contexts are in the safety of the Iraqi situation, but we entered directly into the question of entitlement. "
"From this point began the obstacles placed at the post-election."
Turning Allawi electricity crisis and declining services in Iraq, and said the issue was more the responsibility of the Minister of Electricity or dismissal, pointing out what he called an imbalance in the performance and strategies.
He explained, "the Iraqi budget have grown dramatically and so massive, we are what we, in our time was a barrel (oil) equivalent of less than 30 dollars, and reached to 140, 150, 80 and 70 dollars."
"It was possible .. during the past four years developing real steps to develop the capacity and electric power, in the absence of a bug in a bug in the performance and strategies for the organization of services, especially the electricity".
He added: "This responsibility is not the responsibility of the Minister and I think that his resignation was a mistake and accept his resignation was a mistake and he must deal with the problem and not deal with people."
The Minister of Electricity has resigned in the wake of protests against low supply of electricity resulted in deaths and injuries.
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