Turkish newspaper reveals Maliki’s wait-game
The circus of contradictory statement about the Iraq - U.S. agreement continued today,. Ignoring the public opinion, the parliament, and even his boss Maliki, Zebari told the CNN that the agreement will be signed at the end of next month.
For sure, Zebari’s enthusiasm represents the Kurdish position, which according to anonymous Iraqi official on Awan: “Is the Iraqi government’s weakest link”.
The Kurdish representative in the negotiations with the Americans was pushing forward to sign the agreement with further details, accepting the American terms of the agreement.
Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyat [via alriyadh] revealed why Maliki is playing a time game and why the Kurds want to sign the agreement as soon as possible:
Iraqi government asked both Turkey and Iran to provide written guarantees on security cooperation with Iraq, in exchange for abandoning the security agreement the U.S.
The newspaper uncovered, that Baghdad is waiting for answers from Tehran and Ankara, and will cancel the whole idea of the agreement in case Iran and Turkey provide such guarantees.
In this Al Arabiya discussion broadcast Iraqi MP Al-A’raji revealed the following:
It must be noted that the agreement is not points were both sides can agree upon. In reality it is an agreement written in the U.S. by White House advisers in English, and parts of the text translated to Arabic, Iraqi negotiators can only agree or disagree on the points.
The danger is that; attachment-protocols will follow this agreement, these protocols can be [economy, cultural, health, relation with neighboring countries...etc]. These protocols are second constitution of Iraq with American terms, if you signed the main agreement then you cannot reject the protocols.
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