A visiting senior Iraqi official stressed here Thursday that a real national reconciliation is the only way out of the Iraqi crisis, warning that sectarianism in Iraq could destroy the state and its people.
Khalil Ibrahim al-Azzawi, political advisor to Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, made the remarks following his meeting with Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the Cairo-based Arab League (AL), on the latest developments in the Iraqi arena.
During the meeting, al-Azzawi voiced his concern over the stalemate of the national reconciliation in Iraq, calling on Arab countries to intervene to push the reconciliation forward.
If Iraqis reach a real agreement on national reconciliation and constitutional concepts, they will take long strides on the right track, he said.
The Iraqi advisor, meanwhile, held that sectarian sedition in Iraq is an imported goods, affirming that the Iraqi people is one fabric.
Sectarian conflicts among different sects could ruin the Iraqi state and its people, al-Azzawi warned, citing the deadly clashes on Tuesday and Wednesday between Shi'ites and Iraqi security forces in the holy city of Karbala.
Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday ordered his Mahdi Army militia to suspend militant activities for six months after the violence in Karbala left some 52 people killed and more than 300 others injured.
Thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims converged in Karbala, some 110 km south of Baghdad, during the past two days to celebrate the 9th century birth of Muhammad al-Mahdi, the last of 12 Imam most revered by Shi'ite Muslims.
Source: Xinhua
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