UNAMI: No national reconciliation in Iraq without a comprehensive and effective social contract to bind all citizens in their government

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07/09/2015 19:24



Long-Presse / Baghdad

Confirmed the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), on Monday, inability to achieve national reconciliation unless the social contract that binds citizens with their government's "all-inclusive and effective", usually to enable citizens to express their views on how the state administration, eliminates the sense of b "discontent exploited by terrorists", while the government has indicated that it has already begun the transfer of powers to the provinces currently focused on building the legislative and technical capabilities, and stressed the presidency that "the Constitution, the federal considered and the transfer of powers from the" pillars of the foundation for the country's stability and security. "


She said UNAMI, in a statement received (long-Presse) a copy of it, that "more than 120 senior government officials, civil society leaders and governors of nine Iraqi provinces, and representatives from the 15 provinces, participated today in a seminar regarding the transfer of more powers to local governments "noting that it" was held in the framework of national reconciliation efforts, for talks on how they can mandate through which part of the ruling powers of the provinces in support of national reconciliation and to discuss the prospects and the application of the federal approach. "

She said the UN mission, that "the seminar organized a joint effort between the Mission and the Office of the Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, thanks to the generous support provided by the German and Dutch governments."



He quoted UNAMI for the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Lise Grande, saying that "the symposium comes at a very important time when people call in across the country to change, at a time when the leaders of the country made strides daring to implement an ambitious and with a plan credible governance reform." , indicating that "national reconciliation is still a major priority for the Government of Iraq, and as friends and partners for Iraq, the United Nations and the international community support the support of just that goal."

She Grande, that "reconciliation can not be unless the social contract that binds citizens with all-inclusive and effective government", usually that "citizens when they feel that their government is working for them, and that they can express on an equal footing, for their views on how to manage that state, then fading sense of indignation, which is exploited by the terrorists, and decayed political climate they need to spread their ideology atmosphere. "



For his part, it agreed representative of the Office of the Prime Minister, Osman Salman, according to the statement, with "the observations made by the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq," noting that "the transfer of powers is a gradual process but it has already begun, with erect currently focus on capacity building legislative and technical at the provincial level. "

To that count Turhan Mufti, who represented the president's office, according to a statement Greek, that "the Constitution, federal authorities said the transfer of the pillars of the foundation for the country's stability and security."

And it followed the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, that "the seminar saw the presentations made by the Committees of national reconciliation and regions and provinces in the House of Representatives, and a number of international experts on the subject of the transfer of powers, as representatives put all their aspirations and hopes of the province for the future of Iraq."

And he pledged UNAMI, that "are consolidated results of soon-to seminar in a comprehensive document used to help guide the ongoing efforts on national reconciliation and the transfer of powers to local governments in Iraq."



The Cabinet vote in (the fourth of August 2015), the final version of the amendment governorates not organized in the territory of Law No. 21.

It is noteworthy that the majority of local governments, has repeatedly stressed during the last term, its commitment to decentralization and the transfer of the powers of a number of federal ministries in her schedule next August, and threatened to resort to the Federal Court to prosecute lagging ministries transfer of powers.

The coordination meeting of the governorates not organized province had been held, in (the first of August 2015), at the conference room in the Council of Ministers headed by the prime minister, Haydar al-Abadi and the presence of eight ministers as well as governors and heads of provincial councils in 15 governorates irregular province.

The article (45) of the second amendment to the law of governorates not organized in the territory of Law No. (21) of 2008 voted by parliament in its meeting held in the (23 June 2013), states that "A commission named (the Supreme Commission for Coordination between the provinces) headed by the Prime Minister, and the membership of Ministers (Municipalities and Public Works, and Construction and Housing, labor and social affairs, education, health, planning, agriculture, finance, sports and youth) and Minister of State for Provincial Affairs, governors and heads of provincial councils holds the "transport sub-circuits and devices and functions and the services and functions exercised by those ministries with allocated public budget and staff and personnel allocations, to the provinces within the scope of its functions set out in the Constitution and relevant laws gradually and within a time limit not exceeding two years and remains the role of ministries in the planning of public policy.

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