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BAGHDAD, May 12 (KUNA) -- The Iraqi Accord Front is posed to make
"significant" decisions on several choices in few days' time, Iraqi
Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi said on Saturday, expressing optimism on "the
new political scene in the country."
During an extraordinary meeting for the Front held today, Al-Hashemi
reviewed the results of his meetings with the Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki
and other officials over the past few days.
"The Iraqi Accord Front has few days to make important decision over many
choices tabled before it. Priority will be given to dialogue" Al-Hashemi told
the meeting "These decisions will be significant and will hit the deep roots
of the political process, but not at all to rise to the level of a coup as the
rumor goes."
Al-Hashemi, however, did not reveal the nature of such decisions, nor the
tendencies of the Front, one of the biggest in Iraqi parliament.
He noted that during the meeting with the Premier, he found fresh
atmosphere that aroused his optimism, adding "there are many steps, requiring
government decisions, that will, undoubtedly, contribute to secure success for
these meetings and will have their positive impact on the political process
and stability of Iraq."
The Iraqi Vice-President had last week ended a weeks long boycott with
Al-Maliki when he visited the Premier in his office in Baghdad coinciding with
a phone call from US president George Bush and Al-Maliki. This was a day
before the visit by the US Vice President Dick Cheney to Baghdad.
Meanwhile, a source at the Iraqi parliament, speaking on condition of
anonymity, revealed that Al-Hashemi's son had escaped an assassination attempt
in Al-Ameriya, west of the Iraqi capital. It said that the son was seriously
injured and carried to a nearby hospital.
Sources at the Iraqi police would not confirm the news "just now."
Terrorists assassinated two Al-Hashemi's brothers in separate attacks in
Baghdad last year. (end)
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