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Iraq delays U.S. security vote

Iraq's parliament speaker says a vote on a proposed security agreement with the United States has been delayed until Thursday.

Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani's announcement came after a planned session to hold the vote did not go through Wednesday.

Intense deal making among Iraqi factions delayed the vote. The Shiite-led government is struggling to meet demands of factions including a Sunni Arab bloc seeking concessions in return for its support.

Under the agreement, U.S. forces would stay in Iraq through 2011.

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President Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the parliament postponed the parliamentary session for vote on the Security Agreement with Washington on Wednesday to Thursday

Mashhadani said in a speech after the start of the Iraqi parliament, said that "the Presidency of the Parliament decided to postpone the meeting until Thursday because of the Presidency of the Republic needed more time to find a final document for political reform", indicating that "the political climate heading towards a Solution to all disputes between political blocs on the document during the coming hours. "

For his part, deputy Iraqi List Visual Khairul that "the postponement of the parliamentary session was to ask the President of the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue MP Saleh Mutlaq, the introduction of paragraphs in a document of political reforms."

The visual in an interview with "Uzmatik" on Wednesday, that "Mutlaq demanded the cancellation of the Criminal Court, and the law of accountability and justice within the paragraphs of a political reform negotiated by the political blocs."

The document contains the reforms demanded by some political forces custody of the Security Agreement with Washington, activating the general amnesty law, and work for the return of refugees to Iraq, to present the agreement to a popular referendum, and the need to revisit the Constitution, and stop the prosecution of political currents, and the conversion of the de-Baathification to the judicial process and ensure Fair elections, the integration of Asahoat in the organs of state civil and military, rebuild the armed forces on the basis of professional non-political.

The visual that "the demands of non-Mutlaq, implementation and matters affecting the mission set out in the Iraqi constitution, and are thus not applicable", he said.

He expected that the optical "is the parliamentary session on Thursday, the vote of the political blocs unanimously on a national reform and the Convention without taking security demands Mutlaq."

The number of blocs and political parties began several days of intensive negotiations and discussions with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to present demands and conditions compared to ratify the Convention. A few blocks some of the demands that were approved with discussions on other demands.

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Najifi: Security Agreement with the US today passed a enough votes for ratification

A member of the House of Representatives Iraqi National List Osama Najifi "The Security Agreement with the United States will be passed in the House to support the presence of enough votes to ratify it."

Najifi revealed in an interview with "Uzmatik" for "approval of the Iraqi to vote in favor of ratifying the Convention after it was conservative," but the hard work that "refused to vote on a convention do not represent the Iraqi people," as he put it.

Najifi said that "the adoption of the convention to remedy the situation before the imbalance will freeze the situation and keep it unchanged for a long time while he was the first government and the political blocs to work to achieve political balance in the country under an international umbrella, namely the UN Security Council."

The Najifi that "political reform paper which contains the demands of the political blocs and reservations on the agreement with the United States, security has not done so far is also the subject of the referendum left the final because the mechanisms did not specify."

The number of blocs and political parties began several days of intensive negotiations and discussions among themselves with the President and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to present demands and conditions compared to ratify the Convention. Blocs and some pointed to respond to some of the demands being discussed with other demands. Was for the President House of Representatives hearing on the Convention to vote on Thursday in order to give more time to the Presidency Council to consider political reform document.

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Vice-Sadr is on the postponement of vote on Convention for the purposes of bargaining

As the Sadrist MP for Al-Yassin, the reason behind the postponement of the vote to the security of the Convention on Thursday was "for bargaining purposes by some blocks for some gains," Sadr's renewed rejection of the Convention.

Al-Yassin said in an interview with "Uzmatik" on Wednesday following the postponement of the meeting of the Council of Representatives to vote on the Security Agreement to tomorrow "There are bargains by some blocks for earnings compared with the signing of the Convention."

She added that "it is difficult to predict approval of the Convention, but if there is a political game, and bargaining and the results of some blocks are passed out."

The MP described the accord as "the withdrawal was not an agreement but a document to mislead the public opinion and Arab and international levels, namely, the Convention on the survival and the presence of the occupying forces in Iraq."

Al-Yassin, considered "the Convention was merely a change of addresses and names and no real scheduling and time and geographical parameters for the withdrawal of occupation forces," indicating that "the withdrawal date Rubber and the installer is not clear."

For his part, new leader of the Sadrist movement, Hazim Araji current position, which "rejects the Convention in toto," calling "the parliamentary blocs not to sign the Convention because the signature catastrophe," as he put it.

On the current position of the Convention in the event of approval "They said in an interview with" Uzmatik "that" we have held with scientists await their view, and we will continue to educate the people rejected it. "

The Iraqi parliament postponed until tomorrow, Thursday vote on the Security Agreement with the United States in order to give the president time to discuss the demands of parliamentary blocs contained in the document of political reform, while referred to some blocks that part of his demands were met.

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Barham Salih: a vote in the agreement will depend on completion of discussions tonight

Linked to Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih vote on the Security Agreement with Washington in Parliament on the outcome of the meetings and discussions of the three presidencies and political blocs that night regarding a paper political reforms.

The document contains the reforms demanded by some political forces custody of the Security Agreement with Washington, activating the general amnesty law, and work for the return of refugees to Iraq, to present the agreement to a popular referendum, and the need to revisit the Constitution, and stop the prosecution of political currents, and the conversion of the de-Baathification to the judicial process and ensure Fair elections, the integration of Asahoat in the organs of state civil and military, rebuild the armed forces on the basis of professional non-political.

Saleh said in an interview with "Uzmatik" on Wednesday, said that "the Convention to vote in the parliament session on Thursday subject to debates taking place tonight between the leaders of political blocs and the three presidencies and the Republic of Ministers and the Parliament to formulate a common formula, acceptable to all with respect to political reform paper Claimed by some bloc in parliament. "

The Iraqi parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said in a speech after the start of the Iraqi parliament session on Wednesday, said that "the Presidency of the Parliament decided to postpone the meeting until Thursday because of the Presidency of the Republic needed more time to find a final document of political reform."

Salih pointed out that "there is a commitment by the big blocs in the House of Representatives to consider the demands of some political blocs, and the need to deal with it", and expressed the hope that "the outstanding issues are resolved today to find a suitable atmosphere tomorrow to vote on the Security Agreement."

The Deputy Prime Minister declined to go into details of Iraq's outstanding issues of contention between the political forces, but he emphasized that "if the resolution of the Convention and political reform paper will be presented in parliament as a single package to be voted on."

He pointed out that the benefit of current circumstances in the discussions between the political blocs "There are many understandings, and the convergence of views, and at the same time expressed his hope that" there is some form of agreement between the blocs on the draft comprehensive political reform, leading the country into a state of political instability And the reconstruction of the country. "

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proposed security agreement with the United States has been delayed until Thursday.

Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani's announcement came after a planned session to hold the vote did not go through Wednesday.

Intense deal making among Iraqi factions delayed the vote. The Shiite-led government is struggling to meet demands of factions including a Sunni Arab bloc seeking concessions in return for its support.