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indicated the parties have reached an agreement concerning the allocation of the
ministry.
According to the media reports the elections' front runner bloc, al-Iraqiya led by the
former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi also demands the same ministry.
In case the foreign ministry was allotted to another party, al-Iraqiya will be assigned
another sovereign ministry instead, Khafaji said.
After eight months of delay when the major Iraqi blocs entered a strategic power-sharing
deal, the election of the Iraqi president and the parliament speaker took place Nov.11. It
is since Thursday that the president has assigned Nouri al-Maliki as the PM to form the
new cabinet in 30 days.
The deadline for cabinet formation should be "respected", Khafaji stressed, urging the
parties to comply with the arrangements in the deal so that the cabinet will be formed
before the deadline.
The Iraqi leaders are still to determine the mechanism for allocation the ministries and
the observers believe there is no agreement for he allocation of the ministries.
What is certain about the deal is a National Council for the Strategic Polices which is
promised to Allawi as a compromise for the PM post. Nevertheless, the authorities of the
council are as well as its structure still under debate. (AK News)
In the meeting between the Kurdistan Region's President Massoud Barzani's and the
negotiating team of the Kurdistan Blocs Coalition (KBC) Saturday the parries agreed on
froming three committees.
The KBC was formed after March elections as an umbrella for all the Kurdish parties
which ran for the elections independently and won together 57 seats. However, with the
withdrawal of the Gorran (Change) Movement, late October its seats dropped to 49.
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