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BAGHDAD: Iraq's negotiations with the United States on a security agreement governing America's long-term involvement in the country are at an impasse because America's demands infringe Iraq's sovereignty, the country's prime minister said Friday.

The comments were the first by the prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, in which he explicitly stated there is distance between the United States and the Iraqi government in the negotiations on the security agreement, which would authorize American forces and operations after a United Nations mandate expires at the end of the year.

In a meeting with newspaper editors in Jordan, Maliki said the current draft of the agreement was unacceptable. "The American version of the agreement infringes hugely on the sovereignty of Iraq and this is something that we cannot ever accept," he said.

Many of Maliki's concerns have been voiced publicly over the last several weeks by prominent Shiite politicians in Iraq, some of them from his own Dawa Party.

However, this is the first time that the prime minister has raised the same points.


Maliki said there were four areas in which proposed versions of the agreement failed to give sufficient deference to Iraqi sovereignty.

"Iraq rejects Washington's insistence on granting their forces immunity from Iraqi laws and courts," he said. "We reject Washington's demand to have a free hand in undertaking military operations without cooperation with the Iraqi government." He added: "We cannot give permission to the American forces independent right to arrest Iraqis or execute operations against terrorism. We cannot allow them to use the Iraqi skies and waters at all times."

The question of immunity for American contractors accused of killing a number of Iraqi civilians unprovoked is a particularly sensitive point with Iraqis, who want to be able to bring wrongdoers to trial in Iraqi courts.

Maliki's tone Friday had a somewhat harsher tone than similar comments made on Thursday in Jordan after meeting with King Abdullah.

Maliki emphasized that talks with the United States negotiators were ongoing and that there were many possible ways to proceed.

"There is no agreement yet; there are many drafts, many thoughts," he said in comments to the press that were broadcast on Radio Sawa, an Iraqi network. "But we have different visions."

Although he made clear that there were deep disagreements between the United States and Iraq, he also said the talks were far from over.

"The important thing is that the conversation between us and the United States is still going on but there are many disagreements and different visions between us but we continue in our discussions," he said.

He added that the agreement was "not close" to being signed.

Earlier this week, President George W. Bush expressed confidence that his administration would reach a new agreement with Iraq. The negotiations face opposition in Congress and, increasingly, in Iraq. Iran's supreme leader has also warned Maliki not to ratify an agreement.

Within Iraq, although different Iraqi political factions hold varying views - Sunnis and Kurds, for instance are more open to an agreement, while some of the Shiite factions, which are closer to Iran, are more critical of it - they all emphasize the importance of Iraq's sovereign rights

Is Iraq turning into a US colony?

so what is about the Puke CNN ABC NBC CBS and all Jew owned Newmedia in America was feeding us all along before this war started what was this war About ?

Weapon of Mas Destruction ? never found
Saddam was a dictator ? so is 99.99 of all 3rd world nations
iraq had any thing to do with 911? non of the 19 hijackers was iraqi
Bring democracy and freedom to the iraqis ? more than 1 million iraqi civilians died and 3 million became refugees and call that freedom ?

or Are the Americans People are so Stupid that they would Expect Jewish owned News Media and News Tv statiosn to tell the americans in their face
we went to iraq to make Israel safer ? and get closer to greater israel ?

when we ever going to awake from this slumber ?