Issue of Security Ministries unsettled yet, Legislature

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com – A Legislature in the National Coalition, led by Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliky, has said on Saturday that the issue of the security ministries in the present cabinet had not been settled yet, adding that a “parliamentary sessions would be held to settle the issue.”   “The Parliament’s session on Sunday will be devoted to discuss the most important developments on the Iraqi arena, especially the last demonstrations and the needs of citizens,” Hana’a Turkey said, adding that “the issue of the security ministries would not be discussed in the session.”   Noteworthy is that the majority of Iraqi Provinces had witnessed on Friday, March 4 th , protest demonstrations against the deterioration of services, demanding political reforms and putting an end to the administrative corruption and unemployment.   Last Friday’s demonstrations had been preceded by similar demonstrations on Friday, Feb. 25, 2011, that carried the same slogans and demands, as both occasions had witnessed the killing of a number of demonstrators, along with the wounding of several others, among them members of the Iraqi security forces.   Legislature Turkey said “the Parliament was scheduled to hold several other sessions to settle the issue of the security cabinet posts.”   The Iraqi security cabinet posts are the Ministries of Interior, Defense and National Security, now temporarily put under the administration of Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, on “acting” bases, pending the assignment of original ministers for those posts.   IT / SKH     546