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"Mr President, Iraq is a country which has seen more than its fair share of tragedy in recent years: the fall of the brutal Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist regime has been followed by more or less constant bloodshed, with an unstable government and deep sectarian divisions threatening a still more catastrophic potential civil war.
Only yesterday a car bomb in Baghdad killed 15 people and, according to UN figures, 733 people were killed in January this year alone. In addition, the human rights situation for the Turkmen and Christian minorities, and for women and the LGBT communities, remains dire. It represents an enduring tragedy, in particular that some ancient Christian Assyrian communities are threatened with virtual extinction or expulsion from the country.
Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has, regrettably, revealed himself to be a man prepared to wage war on his own people and is far too close to the Iranian regime. His attacks on the Sunni populations in the Al-Anbar province have caused vast causalities among civilian populations in an indiscriminate fashion, under the omnipresent pretext of combating jihadi terrorism. There is no doubt – Anna Gomes is right – that Sunni terrorism does exist fuelled by the Syrian conflict, and that Al-Qaeda and ISIL are a threat. But Al-Maliki’s assaults smack to me of being driven by sheer sectarian conflict. Furthermore I deplore his government’s failure to protect the people’s Mujahideen.
We must therefore do all that we can to encourage increased dialogue in Iraq, mobilise support for the many internally displaced persons and end the violence, particularly in Fallujah and in nearby Al-Anbar towns. Iraq can only survive if the different populations attempt a meaningful, much-needed reconciliation. I want to also take this opportunity to praise the Iraqi Kurdistan government, which in the face of near chaos south of the border and in the regions of Baghdad has managed to build a prosperous, dynamic and secular democratic policy. The Kurds have every right to use their oil money to build a stable future for themselves either within a democratic, federal or confederal Iraq, or possibly even in my mind, speaking personally..."@en1
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