URGENT: Iraqi Parliament’s session begins to vote on new cabinet:

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Iraqi Parliament’s 14th session was opened on Tuesday afternoon, with the attendance of Prime Minister Designate, Nouri Al-Maliki, to vote on his new cabinet, a media source in the Parliament said. “The Session began, after citing verses from the Holy Quran, with a speech by former Prime Minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, to be followed by another speech by al-Iraqiya Leader, Iyad Allawi, and Kurdistan Coalition’s Representative, Fuad Maasoum, and the citing of the report of the special committee, asigned to prepare the new cabinet’s rogram and then PM Designate Maliki’s call on his cabinet’s candidates for voting on them; and after that the new cabinet members would read the constitutional oath. The PM and the Parliament’s Speaker will deliver their speeches,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The Parliament’s session was also attended by the U.S. Ambassador, former PM Jaafari and Chairman of the Supreme Islamic Council, Ammar al-Hakim. Prime Minister Designate Maliki had announced that he would site the names of his new cabinet ministers and his government’s program to the Parliament session for voting on Tuesday, saying that he had managed to present the names of his candidate ministes for the Parliament’s Speaker on Monday night, within the defined constitutional period. Noteworthy is that the defined constitional period to present the cabinet’s candidates by the Prime Minister Designate and his government’s program would end on 25/12/2010, following the assignment of the Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani, on 25/11/2010, the candidate of the largest Parliamentary bloc, Nouri al-Maliki, with the mission of forming the new cabinet. SKH 34