The second national dialogue session ends with 6 outcomes

Washington supports the early Iraqi elections if the political forces agree on them

Part of the second national dialogue session.

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US Assistant Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs Barbara Leaf said yesterday that Washington supports holding early political elections in Iraq if the various political forces in the country agree on them, while the second session of the national dialogue called for by the Iraqi government ended with six outputs, the most important of which is the formation of a technical team from Various political forces in order to reach early elections.

Leaf said in a press statement: "We focus on three main axes in Iraq: its stability, support and security," explaining that "Iraq's stability means that all its factions should sit at the dialogue table."

US President Joe Biden has called on Iraqi leaders to strengthen the national dialogue between the political forces, to overcome the crisis and move forward to consolidate Iraq's security and stability.

The media office of the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, said, in a statement, that Al-Kazemi received the US Assistant Secretary of State for Middle Eastern Affairs, Barbara Leaf, and her accompanying delegation, where they discussed bilateral relations between the two countries, developments in Iraq, the government's role in facing challenges, and its efforts to contain the crisis. The current political situation by launching several initiatives for a comprehensive national dialogue between all national political forces.

According to the statement, the meeting touched on a number of regional issues and files of common interest.

Leaf confirmed President Biden's call to all Iraqi leaders to promote national dialogue between political forces;

To overcome the crisis, to continue to consolidate the security and stability of Iraq, and for the US administration to continue to support Iraq, and to strengthen the partnership between Baghdad and Washington in accordance with the strategic framework agreement between the two countries.

Yesterday, the second session of the national dialogue between the political forces in Iraq, called for by the Iraqi government, was launched. The first session of the dialogue was held on August 17, and the Sadrist movement was absent from it.

In a statement published by Iraqi media, the media office of the Iraqi Prime Minister stated that, in continuation of the national dialogue initiative, a meeting was held with the leaders of the Iraqi national political forces at the invitation of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, to discuss political developments, and in the presence of the representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq.

The conferees affirmed that the developments in the political situation and the resulting disputes hold everyone responsible for maintaining stability, protecting the country from crises, supporting calm efforts, preventing escalation and violence, and adopting national dialogue;

To reach solutions, they stressed the need for the continuation of the national dialogue sessions.

The meeting decided to form a technical team from various political forces;

To mature common visions and ideas about the road map for a national solution, and to bring the views closer;

In order to reach early elections and fulfill their requirements by reviewing the electoral law, and reconsidering the commission.

The meeting emphasized the activation of institutions and constitutional entitlements, and the meeting renewed the call of the Sadrist movement to participate in technical and political meetings, discuss all contentious issues, and reach solutions to them.

The meeting also stressed the need to purify the atmosphere between the national forces, including preventing all forms of escalation, rejecting speeches that are issued or leaked and that cause damage to historical brotherly relations, and address them through available legal means, in a manner that preserves the dignity of the Iraqi people, their feelings, and their entitlements, and respect for religious considerations. political, and social.

The attendees stressed the need to achieve reform in the structure of the Iraqi state, and to value the demands to address any imbalance in the political or administrative frameworks through the necessary legislation and effective government programs, with the cooperation of all political forces, and with the support of the Iraqi people, including discussing the foundations of constitutional amendments, and adherence to Constitutional options in all stages of dialogue and solution.

The Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Muhammad al-Halbousi, had called for the leaders of the political blocs to reach an agreement to hold early parliamentary elections no later than the end of next year, and to choose an Iraqi government with full agreed powers to pave the way for these elections by amending the current election law, approving the federal general budget and accelerating the court law. Federal Supreme in Iraq.

The forces of the coordination framework are still sticking to naming their candidate, Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani, to form the new Iraqi government, while the Kurdish parties still do not agree on naming a candidate for the presidency.

The political forces entered the second dialogue session after a wave of security disturbances that left about 200 people dead and wounded among the Sadrist movement’s demonstrators and the security forces, after fighting with light and medium weapons inside the government’s Green Zone, the first of its kind after al-Sadr’s followers stormed the headquarters of the government building in a remarkable development of the political crisis In Iraq at the end of last month.

The session also came as the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq is preparing to hold a session to issue a decision regarding the lawsuit submitted by the Sadr movement to dissolve the Iraqi parliament, after it had postponed the pronouncement of the decision for four previous sessions.

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