Today is the final day, and the last chance to discuss the draft constitution. We hope to reach an agreement that would satisfy everyone.

The Shiite United Iraqi Alliance has asked for two days to decide on the issue of security file.

It’s a sectarian thing. It’s an undeclared small civil war.

If left to the majority Shiites and the Kurds, the draft would be ready by Sunday, but the Sunni Arabs have not agreed yet.

If it is delayed a bit nothing much will affect it because this is a deadline we put ourselves, I mean the coalition and the Governing Council, just the two of us. The two of...

By this evening an agreement should be reached between the Kurds and the Shiites on remaining outstanding issues.

Everyone is tired after the last week’s hectic activities. It is like a holiday today.

We have never said we wanted a Kurdish state. The Arabs have never said they wanted a totally Arab state. So I think as long as we all agreed to democracy we should be flexible...

We have all agreed to a democratic Iraq. We have agreed to ballot boxes deciding everything, We have agreed that the people should chose everything. They’ve never said they wanted an Islamic law, Islamic state.

We can still prepare the draft without the Sunnis. All the groups elected in the national assembly can come together and prepare the draft by Monday evening.

We will oppose this as much as we can.

The Sunni Arabs are way apart on the issue of federalism… I doubt if they would come on board even during the next one week. But next time I think the MPs will approve the...

Washington is just sitting by the phone… always asking what is happening. There is tremendous pressure and intervention from the US. It had never been so much since the invasion.

Today we enter the fifth month since the holding of the elections and we still do not have a government. In fact we have not even started the process of forming the government by at...

There are attempts to convince the (Shiite) alliance to leave the issue of federalism in other parts of Iraq (apart from the Kurdish north) for the next parliament to deal with, and also to implement...

We’re still a long way from agreeing on a government.