Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim: We reject any agreements to the Iraq crisis outside the borders of Iraq, the crisis of Iraq is resolved only inside Iraq

Head of the National Iraq Alliance, Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim, expressed his rejection of any agreements arranged outside of Iraq, noting that the Geneva Conference was overstated, and the Iraqi soil is the place to resolve the Iraqi crisis, refusing the interfering of any side in the Iraqi crisis, because it will project its own crises and own vision away from the interest of Iraq, his eminence stressed that the patriotism is not to be discussed in closed rooms and corridors, but should be done under the light and in a declared manner.

This took place during Dewan of the Baghdad for Occupational Elites in his office in Baghdad Saturday, 18.02.2017

His eminence indicated that the interests of Iraq require giving attention to conduct reconciliation with everyone without getting into a game of axis, stressing that demonstrations is a constitutional right, and comments on the recent demonstrations is the timing, for we are preparing for the final battles with Daesh terrorists, as well as behavior of the demonstrations in terms of location and time and performance and not to affect the businesses of the people, the second comment is about the possibility of answering the demands of the demonstrations through the Iraqi House of Representatives to convince the parties and get the support of the majority. In respect of the independency of the Electoral Commission, his eminence pointed out that the term of independency has been the focus of a thorough debate, and who are independent form any party does not mean not having beliefs, therefore the vision was to nominate professional figures by blocs depending on the parliamentary system with the condition of being transparent when all sides monitor to each other in the board of the Electoral Commission, and that the vision is heading towards the enactment of an elections’ law that encourages small blocs to integrate with larger blocs in order to get rid of the large number of leaderships that have contributed in expanding the government cabinet for the sole purpose of pleasing the government, pointing to the importance of completing the project to improve the electoral results, which reduces manipulation in votes’ count by reducing the human effort in counting votes, adding that the tendency to reduce number of members in the provincial council in order to decrease expenses and reducing the government cabinet to be able to provide the service. 

His eminence warned of negative generalization to the reality of Iraq, stressing that it stems from think-tank circles targeting Iraq through amplifying mistakes and bring down the prestige of officials so as no one be able to object in order to keep their existence and entity, adding that the inflation of negative generalization is resulting from the external conspiracy and political blocs rush and adopting the principle of projecting opponents, rather to compete in providing service to the people in a way to reach the masses, in addition to the community culture and the legacy of confrontation with dictators, therefore the condition to put an end to this phenomenon is through providing a higher community awareness and adopting verifying and checking facts before rising attitudes.

In respect of the national settlement project, his eminence stated \" the national settlement was the victim of confusion and mutilation, some of who criticized the project have not read it,\" and the settlement project give answers to most of the questions in a written text and not suggesting solutions, reiterating describing the settlement as a project to build a state of citizenship that emphasizes on the roles of everyone and for all components of Iraq