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Rotating presidency for Iraq
29/07/2003 18:30 - (SA)
Baghdad - Iraq's interim Governing Council decided on Tuesday to name a nine-member rotating presidency, Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) spokesperson Hoshyar Zebari told reporters.
"We have chosen a committee of nine members, and each member will serve as president for one month," Zebari said after a council meeting here.
The nine will include five Shi'ite Muslim, two Sunni, and two Kurdish members of the 25-strong council, inaugurated under the auspices of the US-led occupation administration earlier this month.
The Shi'ites are: Ahmad Chalabi, leading figure in the Pentagon-backed Iraqi National Congress (INC); Iyad Allawi, head of the Iraqi National Accord Movement; Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, number two in the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sairi); Ibrahim Jafari, spokesperson for the fundamentalist Dawa party; and Mohammed Bahr al-Uloom, a liberal cleric.
The Sunnis are former foreign minister Adnan Pachachi and Mohsen Abdul Hamid, secretary general of the Islamic Party, while the Kurds are KDP chief Massoud Barzani and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) leader Jalal Talabani.
The council will decide the order in which the nine will serve on Wednesday, Zebari said, adding that it could opt for the rotation to proceed in alphabetical order.
- AFX
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