Press release regarding the national accord conference held in Cairo

The Iraqi nationalists and religious groups and parties have attended a conference in Cairo, Egypt for 3 days in response to a call made by the Arab League in order to contain the outcome of the political and security chaos.

This meeting was held as a result of pressure made by the US administration on the Arab League, as a consequence to a miserable failure to bring about security and stability to Iraq.

IFC supports every effort to restore stability and security which can bring decent and prosperous life. However this meeting was held to temporarily cease-fire among these groups and conceals the actual causes of terrorism, chaos, insecurity, unemployment, and the lack of social services.

Therefore IFC views the Cairo meeting as:

1. Formalization and legitimization of the ethnic and sectarian division that considered a key factor of deepening the conflict and put the country on a brink of civil war that could erupt at any moment.

2. Iraq has been converted into a terrorist war zone and the occupation troops are an active part of it. However the meeting did not condemn the acts of the occupying troops and turned a blind eye to the troops to their crimes and legitimized the occupation. All these came to comply with the US policy that conquered the world under pretext of war on terror. In addition the occupation has provided the terrorist organization with the ground and climate to launch their operation as an excuse for resisting the occupation.

3. The ethnic and sectarian groups are another factor of the terrorism who committed genocides against innocent people. The militias of these groups are continuing to perform systematic ethnic and sectarian cleansing where abduction, torture, mutilation are underway. Therefore these groups must be condemned.

4. The Arab League has turned its back to the main sources of unrest and chaos of the current situation.

As we mentioned, the current dilemma is caused by the occupation, therefore ending the occupation, establishing non-ethnic and religious state is the only way to bring about security and stability.