By NNN-KUNA
Baghdad : The Iraqi Islamic Party has said that it will not join the Shiite-Kurdish “moderates front” formed Thursday, adding that overcoming the current crisis in Iraq could not be achieved through forging new alliances, but through national conciliation.
“The Islamic Party’s leadership will not be participating in the so-called ‘moderates front’,” the party said in a statement Friday, but wished the four parties that constitute the front success in brining the country out of its current crisis.
Four parties (the Kurdish Democratic Party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Islamic Dawa Party and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council) Thursday signed a charter for a new political alliance referred to in political circles as the “moderates front.”
“We support all honourable efforts (to bring the country out of its crisis) despite the reservations that prevent us from jointing the ‘front’,” it said.
These reservations were accepted by leaders of the two Kurdish parties, it added.
It stressed that “national conciliation” was the means to overcome Iraq’s current crisis, noting that there were major issues that the people were still divided over and that these required a unification of views.
Vice President Tareq Al-Hashemi, the secretary-general of the Iraqi Islamic Party, had congratulated President Jalal Talabani in a cable Thursday on the formation of the alliance.