Othman: Maliki and Nujaifi\'s meeting useful step

The independent MP, of the Kurdistan Alliance, Mahmoud Othman described the meeting between House Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as (good and useful step) for the political process. He told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / that he hoped this meeting will result to a kind of cooperation and coordination between the executive and legislative branches in this delicate and difficult circumstance that the political process is going through.\" About hosting the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs, Hussain al-Shahristani and Electricity Minister Karim Aftan, and the possibility of withdraw confidence from them in Parliament, he said: \"The Parliament could not withdraw confidence from any official or minister during the previous period; therefore it is difficult to do it in the coming period.\" He pointed out to efforts exerted by political blocs to pass some important laws in parliament in the coming period, by consensus among them, because some laws are late from the previous parliamentary term, and must be approved as soon as possible. \" The head of the House of Representatives Osama al-Nujaifi met with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on the sideline of a Ramadan breakfast hosted by Nujaifi yesterday, both men discussed the political situation, and the developments of the Iraqi security arena, particularly the issue of prisoners\' escape from Taji and Abu Ghraib prisons.