Maliki “has become hysterical and has lost his balance. He is doing everything he can to justify his failures and put the blame on others for these failures,” read the statement, published on the Kurdish regional presidency website in English.
Addressing the Maliki, the spokesman said: “Kurdistan is proud for that fact the Arbil has always served as refuge for oppressed people, including yourself when you fled the former dictatorship.”
“Now Arbil is a refuge for people fleeing from your dictatorship. ISIS and other groups have no place in Arbil, they stay with you. It was you who gave Iraqi land and the assets of six army divisions to ISIS,” the spokesman added.
The Kurdish presidency demanded Maliki to apologize. “You must apologize to the Iraqi people and step down. You have destroyed the country and someone who has destroyed the country cannot save the country from crises.”
In another step Kurdish ministers said they were boycotting meetings of Iraq's caretaker cabinet and authorities in Baghdad halted cargo flights to two Kurdish cities.
However, the officials would continue running their ministries and “did not pull out from the government,” a senior Kurdish official speaking on condition of anonymity told Reuters.
The virulent statement came after Maliki charged that the Kurdish regional capital Arbil was harboring militants fighting his government, including from ISIS.
“We cannot be silent over a movement that exploited the circumstances and expanded,” Maliki said Wednesday, infuriated by a Kurdish announcement that plans for an independence referendum were to speed up........................http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/07/10/Iraqi-Kurds-say-hysterical-Maliki-must-quit.html
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Kurdish Authorities Recall Ministers from Iraq's Cabinet - Report...
ReplyDeleteThe Kurdish authorities have recalled their representatives from Iraq's Cabinet and suspended their participation in the country's government, The Associated Press wrote Thursday.
The announcement came after Iraq's Shiite prime minister, Nouri Maliki, accused the Kurdish authorities of having ties with militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), now rebranded as the Islamic State, or IS, and hosting a Sunni militant base in the Kurdish capital Erbil.
"Such statements are meant to hide the big security fiasco by blaming others, and we announce our boycott of cabinet meetings," Deputy Prime Minister Roz Nouri Shawez was quoted by AP as saying.
At the beginning of July, Massoud Barzani, president of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, urged the parliament of the autonomous region to identify a date for a referendum on independence. Barzani called Baghdad's politics a failure that has allowed IS to approach Kurdish borders, and said Mailiki had "lost his balance" and "must apologize to the Iraqi people and leave his post."
Tensions between Kurdish authorities and central Iraq have been growing over the past few months after the Kurds decided to export oil without Baghdad's consent..................http://en.ria.ru/world/20140710/190874364/Kurdish-Authorities-Recall-Ministers-from-Iraqs-Cabinet---Report.html
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