BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has said on Wednesday that “every piece of Iraq’s territories
must be under control by the Central Govenment, warning against the announcement of federations and regions, because the current time is not suitable for such decisions.”
“Iraq’s unity is a red line, we won’t bargain upon,” Maliki said in a speech during reception of leaders of intellectuals of
southern Iraq’s Karbala city, screened by Iraq’s semi-official al-Iraqiya TV Satellite Station, adding that “every part of Iraq’s territories must be under control by the Central Government.” (more…)