Parliament postpones NCSP's draft-law till Monday

BAGHDAD: The Iraqi Parliament has postponed its 2nd reading of the draft-law on the National Council of Strategic Policies (HCSP) for its session on Monday, in order to vote on the draft-law.

"The Parliament has decided in its 28th session today (Saturday), led by Speaker Usama al-Nujeify and attendance by 236 Legislatures, to postpone the 2nd reading of the NCSP's draft-law for its discussion and voting on it for next Monday," Itab al-Douri of al-Iraqiya Coalition told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Douri said that "the NCSP was one of the items of the Arbil Agreement and any negligence of that Agreement is considered its undermining and a negligence for all other items of the Agreement."
"The reason for the postponement had been in order to carry out a detailed study of the NCSP's draft-law," she said, pointing out that "any adjustment on the draft-law can't be accepted, because there had been legal committees, formed by the State of Law and al-Iraqiya Coalitions, who had studied the draft-law in its present form," adding that "the NCSP would be an 'executive' Council and not a consultative council, in order to share in drawing the political map of the country."

The President of Iraq's Kurdistan Region, Massoud Barzani, had announced an initiative to settle the political crisis on Sept.

16, 2010, on which the representatives of different political blocs had committed themselves to settle their suspended differences, including the agreement that formed the government and to establish a new Council, called the National Council of Strategic Policies (NCSP), to be led by al-Iraqiya Coalition's Chairman, Iyad Allawi.