Re: Iraq's draft constitution signed
- From: Von Bailey <ovbailey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 07:49:39 -0700
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 08:24:25 -0400, "GWhyte" <gwhyte3003@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>10:34am (UK)
>Iraq's draft constitution signed
>
>http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1856562005
>
>Members of Iraq's constitution drafting committee signed the draft
>constitution after some amendments, Shiite committee member Khaled
>al-Attiyah said.
>
>The draft now goes to the Iraqi people in an October 15 referendum. Five
>million copies will be circulated nationwide in food parcels that each Iraqi
>family receives monthly from the government.
>
>
>The amendments were made in hopes of appeasing the Sunni Arab minority,
>including removing the word "party" from the phrase about Saddam Hussein's
>Baath Party and allowing the parliament to be elected in December to decide
>the fate of a committee set up to purge for members.
>
>© Copyright Press Association Ltd 2005, All Rights Reserved.
>
That's an interesting perspective of what has occured. It implies
that the Sunni's are in agreement with the document and this article
posted just a couple of hours ago, some time after the one posted by
you implies something totally different.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050828/ts_nm/iraq_dc
Iraq assembly considers charter, Sunnis opposed
[...]
The Sunnis' rejection -- and their prediction that the charter would
be thrown out in a referendum -- came despite minor concessions to
them in the draft by the Shi'ites and Kurds who dominate parliament.
A Sunni Arab delegate on the drafting committee said all his
colleagues on the panel objected to the draft presented to parliament,
and would campaign against it in the referendum, to be held by October
15.
"We have not agreed on this constitution. We have objections which are
the same as we had from day one," Hussein al-Falluji told Reuters.
"If there is no forging of the results, I believe the people will say
'No' to the 'American' constitution," he said, referring to the
referendum.
Despite the objections by Sunnis -- whose community is the seat of
Iraq's insurgency -- President Jalal Talabani's office said a
celebration would be held there at 4 p.m. (1200 GMT) "on the occasion
of finishing drafting the constitution."
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