alsabaah.com - 11/19/2008
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النواب يبدؤون مناقشات المعاهدة اليوم والبيت الأبيض يرحب بموافقة مجلس الوزراء بغداد - الصباح بدأت التحركات السياسية سريعا عقب اقرار مجلس الوزراء امس اتفاق انسحاب القوات الاميركية وتسلم مجلس النواب نسخة منه، لايجاد تحالفات بين القوى النيابية المؤيدة او المعارضة لتمرير الاتفاقية ورغم ان رئيس مجلس ...
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Sadr Takes Aim at New U.S.-Iraq Agreement
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The document is signed but its future is uncertain. [image] After the Iraqi cabinet voted in approval, Iraq’s Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker met in Baghdad to sign the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). Both diplomats hailed the event as a “historic” one — not an overstatement as their meeting was the fruit of many months of deliberations and negotiations. Reportedly, SOFA has a sister document whose details are yet to be made public. Radio Sawa reported that Zebari and Crocker signed “another long-term strategic agreement, which the U.S. ambassador said would shape relations between the two countries in all areas for ...
Sadr Takes Aim at New U.S.-Iraq Agreement
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... anywhere in the media. After the cabinet approved the agreement, movement began immediately in the parliament to found coalitions among parliamentary groups that are in favor of the agreement and among those opposed to it as well. A parliamentary source told al-Sabah that a number of parliamentary leaders started working yesterday to build consensus over the agreement. The source said the positions of parliamentary powers are not clear yet but also added that “there is inclination toward approval, especially that cabinet members from the major groups approved the agreement ...
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