BAGHDAD - Iraq needs political stability to establish security and launch state building, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said today.
During a speech at a ceremony in Baghdad for celebrating the withdrawal of US troopers, Maliki said "I realized that the political stability recently has become the basis for the security and the process of construction, a political stability based on the Constitution." Recent political tensions over accusing VP Tareq Hashemi of terrorism and sacking Deputy PM Saleh Mutlag were followed by a range of bombings in the Iraqi capital which left more than 250 citizens dead or wounded.
"Iraqi nation cannot bear more," PM warned, asking all Iraqis to "join for one thing which is unity of Iraq."
He warned some parties agaiisnt finding a foreign third party "though they are friends", in reference to the recent letter by Iraqiya's List to the US President Barak Obama.
VP Hashemi and the sacked deputy PM, Mutlag, are both Iraqiya leaders. The issue of these officials has further strained relations with Maliki's State of Law Coalition. The two blocs have repeatedly accused each other of violating the Constitution.
PM warned this stage for Iraq is not less dangerous than the previous ones as "the time for political courtesies is over and from now the Constitution will judge all and it will not be disabled."
© AK News 2012
