LEAD STORY: URGENT: Maliki says his meeting with Nujeify shall have positive impact on political process
FILE – In this Dec. 12, 2009 file photo, Osama al-Nujeifi the elected parliament speaker speaks to the press after an Iraqi Parliament session in Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Nujaifi, and his brother, Ninevah Gov. Atheel al-Nujaifi, are two of the most powerful Sunni Arabs in Iraq’s north and have taken hardline pains to limit Kurdish power in Mosul. The 54-year-old speaker was born in Mosul and has a degree in electric engineering.
BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraq‘s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has said on Thursday that his meeting with the Parliament’s Speaker, Usama al-Nujeify, shall have a positive impact on the political process. “My meeting with Nueify had been on a high degree of understanding and we agreed on the main platforms for the building of the State,” Maliki said in a news conference he held after their meeting, adding: “our understanding shall have such positive impact on all political forces and the whole people.” On his part, Nujeify said: “the meeting had been positive and shall work for the development of the political process and the State’s building after the departure of the American forces,” pointing out that “the meeting strives to hold the National Conference.” Prime Minister Maliki had held a meeting on Thursday with the Parliament’s Speaker, Usama al-Nujeify, to discuss means to get out of the current political process and to prepare for the holding of a General National Conference in this respect.