BREAKING NEWS Allawi, Nijaifi arrive in Damascus to meet with Assad

[k98nights]

28/09/2010 22:04:00 (Update)

BREAKING NEWS Allawi, Nijaifi arrive in Damascus to meet with Assad

http://www.ninanews.com/English/

Syria formally invites Allawi to visit Damascus

Tuesday, September 28th 2010 8:02 PM

Baghdad, Sept.28 (AKnews) – Al-Iraqiya List announced on Tuesday that former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi leader of the list will head a delegation to meet the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, to discuss the next government formation.

Damascus invitation to Allawi came a week after the visit of Maliki's coalition delegation headed by Abdel Halim al-Zuhairi. The latter met the Syrian President and handed him a message from Maliki that confirmed the Iraqi government's insistence on strengthening the relationship with the Syrian government and turn the page; the delegation presented a detailed explanation of the program of State of Law coalition that calls for a government of national unity involving all political components.

Iraqiya list member, Kamel al-Dulaimi told AKnews, "The details of the visit and the topics that will be discussed are not known until now… the issue of forming the government and bringing closer the views between the political parties will be proposed for sure in the meeting.”

The List criticized Syria's supportive position of Maliki to take the post of prime minister for the next phase, and was surprised of the changing attitudes of politicians in Damascus towards Maliki who accused Syria repeatedly of being behind the violence in Iraq.

The visit of Maliki's delegation to Syria was upon a telephone call between the Syrian Prime Minister Muhammad al-Otari and the outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in which they discussed the political and security situation and the stages of the government formation.

Political observers believe that the Syrian Prime Minister's initiative by calling Maliki is a change in the Syrian attitude towards the latter, in which his candidacy for the post of prime minister was not accepted by the Syrian officials given that the relationship between the Syrian government the Iraqi government over Maliki's presidency was a tense one.

The dispute between Baghdad and Damascus has escalated after Wednesday's bloody blasts on Aug. 19, 2009, in which hundreds of civilians were killed and wounded. Maliki blamed publicly for the first time the Syrian government for being responsible of providing support to the dissolved Baath Party’s Yunis al-Ahmad wing, the accused of Wednesday bombings

Many Iraqi officials visited Syria during the past few months, including Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of Sadr Current, Ammar Hakim, the head of the Supreme Islamic Council, Ayad Allawi, Adel Abdul Mahdi, the Iraqi Vice President and Ayad al-Samarrai, leader of the Iraqi Accordance Front, as the importance of forming a new Iraqi government has been emphasized to guarantee the participation of all segments of Iraqi people in the political process.

Reported by Haider Ibrahim

sa/AE/AKnews

http://www.aknews.co...knews/4/184624/

[Niko]

nina news says they have arrived, 2200 hours.

[k98nights]

nina news says they have arrived, 2200 hours.

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[Texxas777]

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[Captjohn]

BREAKING NEWS....More of same.....especially since Maliki's coalition delegation met with Assad last week. Appreciate your enthusiastic post, but IMO it doesn't mean much.

[lost one]

Thanks for the post, But what does this mean, Just another meeting, out of the country to a PM that has no meaning to the formation of the Iraqi goverment. Other than to confuse the two into thinking that they are on their side.

[Bobbydee]

Thanks Woody for the post. Maybe something positive will take place this time. God Bless Semper Fi

[cgbrown]

Why do they keep going out of the country? When we elect our officials, we don't pick up the phone and as to meet every neighboring country to see if we did a good job of electing someone or not. I don't get this conferencing with all these Arab nations. It is the election of Iraq. It is their decision to make. Everyone else just butt out.

[bodeen]

Thanks Woody for the post. Maybe something positive will take place this time. God Bless Semper Fi

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Thanks friend......... God bless and best of luck to you and yours......