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Iraq Seeks To Sign Constitution
http://www.sina.com.cn 2004/03/02 10:52  Shanghai Daily

  Iraq's US-picked leaders, who failed to meet a deadline for adopting an interim constitution, hope to come up with an agreement in the few days.

  The agreement won't be signed until the end of a Shiite religious holiday, a coalition official said yesterday.

  Meanwhile, an Estonian soldier was killed when a homemade bomb that was planted by insurgents went off in northwest Baghdad, an Estonian spokeswoman said yesterday.

  He was the first Estonian soldier killed by hostile fire since former Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and the first coalition trooper killed in action since February 19.

  Elsewhere, an Iraqi was killed and another was injured yesterday in Rumaythah, 40 kilometers north of Samawah, when American soldiers fired on a car that failed to stop when a US military convoy passed by.

  The coalition official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said no signing ceremony for the interim constitution would be held until after Ashoura, a 10-day festival commemorating the death of the Shiite saint Imam Hussein, a grandson of the prophet Muhammad.

  Hamid al-Kafaai, a spokesman for the Governing Council, said it would take a day or two before the constitution is unveiled.

  "There are no differences, no divisions. There are different points of views and all these have been accommodated.

  We have a united stand now and the transitional administrative law will be announced soon," he said.

  Mahmoud Othman, a Sunni Muslim Kurd on the council, said the talks yesterday were measured.

  The delay indicated the deep divisions over how to distribute power among the country's ethnic and religious factions and to balance Islam and secularism.

  The failure to meet the Saturday deadline was also the latest glitch in US plans to hand sovereignty to Iraqis on June 30.

  On Saturday, the top US administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, met with members of the Iraqi Governing Council in an attempt to overcome differences, one day after Shiite council members stormed out of talks after a dispute over Islamic law and women's rights.

  "There are serious problems," said Mouwafak al-Rubaie, a Shiite member of the Governing Council. But, he added, "we started to learn a new trade that's called compromise."

  (The Associated Press)




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