I believe that in the next 15 days we can have a new government and present it to parliament.
We are working for the sake of a national unity government. All the different groups that are in government must have the right to participate in making decisions.
Dialogue has started between us and between the slates that won in the elections. Our goal is to form a broad-based national unity government.
We didn't say a week randomly. We thought a week was enough to solve the problems.
We do not accept to be blackmailed. For those who say to us, if you don't give us what we want, the terrorism will not stop, we will stop the negotiations for a long time.
We hope they will review their position, because if they do not, it will damage the atmosphere of unity we have in this critical time.
He told the alliance today that it was up to it to decide. Now it will be the alliance which will decide.
We reached today the final limit beyond which we can't move any further.
The great thing will be if I succeed in cementing national unity and regaining security, stability and services. We have been able to accomplish several things today, and with these accomplishments we shall complete the building of the new Iraq on the basis of freedom, equality, plurality for all.
There will be no re-vote of the elections.
What's left is the voting. It's up to them (the Sunnis). They either object, vote against it or accept it.
Weapons should be only the hands of the government.
We need to protect Iraq and the world against terrorists.
If we can reach unity between all the components of the people, the canals of terrorism will dry up.
His eminence stressed two points first, the importance of the Alliance, its survival and its unity, and second, the necessity of adhering to the decisions that came out of the Alliance.
We suspended today's meetings to discuss the formation of the government because of what happened at the al-Mustafa mosque.
We cannot ignore the facts on the ground. Democracy means accepting the opinion of the majority. They should accept the other and the outcome of the ballot boxes. The Sunnis need to take this into consideration.
The door is open for dialogue with our brothers and partners because we believe that Iraq cannot stand up without its main components.
I demand a full investigation of this crime.
We weren't really surprised by these attacks. They prove that the terrorism which rages in Iraq has also become a real threat to other countries, including those which have closed their eyes on what is going on in our country.
The government needs to act quickly to take control of the security issues and keep it all under the Iraq's control.
The Alliance calls for a rapid restoration of (control of) security matters to the Iraqi government.
When we penned the changes, we did not give consideration to the opposition by these groups. These people are not going to succeed in bringing down the constitution.
We are not seeking 100 percent consensus -- the most important thing is that the people of Iraq accept (the constitution) in a referendum.
They have stated that what they call 'resistance' has protected the ballot boxes in their areas. This is a confession that rigging has happened.
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