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07-04-2007, 09:48 AM
Parliament holds session without IAF, Sadrists
Baghdad, July 4, (VOI) - The Iraqi Parliament held on Wednesday an ordinary session chaired by First Deputy Speaker Sheikh Khaled al-Attiya in the absence of members of the Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF), the Sadrists and the National Dialogue front.
"The session will witness voting on the investment law related to refining crude oil, in addition to the first reading of the draft law on the ratification of international roads in the Arab Mashreq (The eastern part of the Arab world), the second reading of the draft law on the first amendment to the publishing law in the official newspaper number 78 for 1977, and the second reading of the draft law regarding Iraq joining the Vienna agreement and Montreal Protocol to protect the Ozone," a media source from the parliament told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
"The agenda also includes voting and second readings of draft laws on canceling a number of the decisions of the dissolved revolution command council," he added.
The Sunni IAF is the third largest parliamentary bloc with 44 seats out of the 275-member parliament.
The front suspended its participation in cabinet last week, mainly over legal steps being taken against the culture minister, one of its six members in the Shiite-led government.
That move followed a boycott of the parliament a week earlier, also taken by the National Dialogue front, in response to the ousting of Sunni speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani.
The Sadrist bloc, with 30 seats in the parliament, is also boycotting sessions until the government starts reconstructing the Shiite shrine in Samarra, which was attacked by gunmen last month
Baghdad, July 4, (VOI) - The Iraqi Parliament held on Wednesday an ordinary session chaired by First Deputy Speaker Sheikh Khaled al-Attiya in the absence of members of the Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF), the Sadrists and the National Dialogue front.
"The session will witness voting on the investment law related to refining crude oil, in addition to the first reading of the draft law on the ratification of international roads in the Arab Mashreq (The eastern part of the Arab world), the second reading of the draft law on the first amendment to the publishing law in the official newspaper number 78 for 1977, and the second reading of the draft law regarding Iraq joining the Vienna agreement and Montreal Protocol to protect the Ozone," a media source from the parliament told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
"The agenda also includes voting and second readings of draft laws on canceling a number of the decisions of the dissolved revolution command council," he added.
The Sunni IAF is the third largest parliamentary bloc with 44 seats out of the 275-member parliament.
The front suspended its participation in cabinet last week, mainly over legal steps being taken against the culture minister, one of its six members in the Shiite-led government.
That move followed a boycott of the parliament a week earlier, also taken by the National Dialogue front, in response to the ousting of Sunni speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani.
The Sadrist bloc, with 30 seats in the parliament, is also boycotting sessions until the government starts reconstructing the Shiite shrine in Samarra, which was attacked by gunmen last month