Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives in Damascus Wednesday refused a U.S. Senate's resolution to divide his country.
Mashhadani, who is in Syria on a visit, made the denunciation to the press after his meeting with his Syrian counterpart Mahmoudal-Abrash.
"Our response to the decision of the U.S. Senate is to work to achieve sovereignty and independence and adhere to our national unity in the face of all attempts to fragment Iraq and incite strife," Mashhadani told the reporters.
On the Iraqi refugees in Syria, Mashhadani stated that Syria has endured the existence of refugees for four years and it should be assisted in carrying this burden by forming a joint committee to solve this issue.
For his part, Abrash stressed that Syria has always respected Iraq's independence and never interfered in its internal affairs.
The U.S. Senate passed a non-binding bill in September, calling for limiting the power of Iraq's federal government and giving more control to Iraq's ethnically divided regions.
The bill proposes to separate Iraq into Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni entities, with a federal government in Baghdad in charge of border security and oil revenues.
However, the Bush Administration is unlikely to alter its policy on Iraq as it has urged the Iraqi government to establish a national unity government and has rejected the idea of dividing Iraq based on ethnic factions.
Source:Xinhua
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