كونا Kuwait News Agency : Eight Iraqi parliamentary blocs push for bill against US act
Eight Iraqi parliamentary blocs push for bill against US act
Eight Iraqi parliamentary blocs representing different ideological and political tendencies called Sunday for probing the recent act of the US Senate on splitting Iraq at an extraordinary parliament session. The session has to reach a decision on preventing the implementation of the US act under any pretext, said a joint statement issued here by the eight political forces. The forces are the Sadrist Trend, the Iraqi Accord Front, the United Iraqi Alliance, the National Dialogue Front, the Virtue Party, the Iraqi National List, the Turkmen Front and the Arab Front. The statement, read at the premises of the Iraqi House of Representatives here by the Iraqi National List MP Ezzat Al-Shabanderi, reacted to the move sponsored by US Democrat senator Josef Baden.
"His act constitutes a grave precedence that could define the nature of the future relationship between Iraq and the United States," it underlined. "The US Senate seems to be planning for a long-term occupation of Iraq.
"The act runs counter to all rules and norms of the international relations and infringes on the rights of the Iraqi nation to self-determination.
"The act, worse still, came at a time when the Iraqi sectarian violence was escalating and the Iraq national texture was dissolving," according to the statement.
