iya calls for measures for national conference success

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Al-Iraqiya Bloc called for preparations to hold the national conference through dismantling the present crisis into segments. The division of the crisis will be connected to “wide arrests, political tension in Diyala and other provinces, freezing non-constitutional procedures for deputy premier Saleh Mutlaq and vice-president Tariq al-Hashimi trial. Spokeswoman Maysoun Damalouji added the necessity to have the participation of the leaders who fought dictatorship. In a statement, received by IraqiNews.com, she added the importance of ” aborting armed arrests and incitements against the Iraqi people, in general, and al-Iraqiya leaders in particular”. “Hashimi should have a just, honest and free of pressures trial”, she confirmed. Iraq is moving into a severe political crisis after accusing vice-president Tariq al-Hashimi with terrorism and issuing an arrest warrant against him, in addition to Premier Nouri al-Maliki’s decision to demote his deputy Saleh al-Mutlaq, who are both leading members in al-Iraqiya Bloc. Added to all that previous differences on security posts, internal differences between al-Iraqiya and State of Law blocs for the Arbil agreements and charges that Premier Maliki is governing the country unilaterally. RM (TI)/SR 874