Iraqi PM-designate Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi time is getting over for forming the new Iraqi government, and talks are on the way in Baghdad and has entered a critical and decisive stage. Meanwhile, most Iraqi Kurdish parties entered Baghdad Tuesday, last week, and began meetings with Iraqi political party officials and figures in the framework of negotiations to form a new government.

The Kurdish delegation to Baghdad that held talks on the formation of the new government included representatives from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the Change Movement (Gorran), Kurdistan Islamic Union, Kurdistan Islamic Community, and representatives of Christians and Turkomans.

Shushkayee, the spokesman of the Islamic party in the Iraqi parliament, told Kurdpress that the delegation made the visit to Baghdad for having talks on the formation of the new Iraqi government. The Iraqi Joint Meeting Board of Kurdistan has been in Baghdad to hold negotiations and talks to form a new government. So far, Mohammad Tawfiq Allawi has not announced anything as his government's agenda, and he is not going to announce any programs over his cabinet until the day of voting in parliament. He has only declared conditions and principles for selecting candidates to run for the cabinet.

The Kurdish delegation's visit aimed at discussing the Kurdistani project, including the problems of the region, and territorial disputes with the central government, issues related to the resilience of property and political differences, and issues related to the Peshmerga force. The purpose of the visit is to make Baghdad to deal with the region like an autonomous region not a province. Our demand in the negotiations also is that the next government should be a strong government, and restore stability and calmness to the country. These issues are among our demands.

"The Kurdish delegation had meetings with all Iraqi parties and blocs, but the Saeroon delegation," Shushkayee told Kurdpress about the meetings of the Kurdish delegation in Baghdad, adding that the Kurdish delegation announced its position and outlook clearly, and stressed that our demands in forming a new government are in line with the Iraqi constitution, and “I can say that there is a close relationship between the positions and views, and we are trying to reach a common point in the cases where views are diverse.”

He went on to add that the Kurdish delegation also had a meeting with the Iraqi Kurdish President Barham Salih in the morning on the day, and “we will meet Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi in the afternoon on forming the new government, and then with the State of Law Coalition Leader Nuri al-Maliki, Iraqi Parliament Spokesman, Mohammed Al-Halbousi, other Iraqi Shiite and Sunni party leaders, to announce the positions of the Kurds on the formation of the new government,” but it is soon to have any ideas about the result of the talks.

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