Monday, June 02, 2008

Iraqi VP: national consensus against ongoing draft pact with U.S.

AMMAN, June 2 (Xinhua) -- .. Iraqi Vice President Tareq Al Hashemi said .. late Sunday that there is a national Iraqi consensus not to accept the draft agreement being negotiated by between Baghdad and Washington to prolong presence of U.S. troops in Iraq until after 2008, the official news agency Petra reported on Monday.

"Iraq will never accept any deal that infringes on its sovereignty and is not in the interest of the Iraqi people," the Vice President was quoted by Petra as saying.

Al Hashemi told a meeting hosted by the Jordanian Society for Science and Culture that the current dilemma is far beyond Iraq's capabilities and his country is facing immense and dangerous challenges that impede efforts to rebuild modern Iraqi state ...

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