 مرحباً بكم في معادي السلام والطلب مصرورون اللي ترحبهم بكم وبوجود نائبة رعيس سيدان نو جيفي وهذه هي أول مرة يحضر هنا إلى هذا المبنى ونرحب بها من دواعي سورورنا أن يكون السفير سايد موجود معنا ومن دواعي سورورنا ومماس المنطقة الكردستان هي موجود هنا ودائماً نرحب بها أريد أن أخبركم بعض المنطقة عن نائبة الرئيسة وفي تكلم العربي وعتقد بأن لديكم جميع المنطقة والإنجنيزية هي القناة ستة والعربي هو القناة ستة إذا يمكنكم أن تستعملوا ومنفذ لكم حتى تستمعوا بالخطاب نائبة رعيس وانكم تعرفونه جيداً وقد تنقاشنا في النهنسي هي one of the reasons we're very pleased to have you here to be able to speak and talk about this year and the events going on in Iraq and the Iraqi forces with support from the International Coalition have liberated more than 90% of the land once held by ISIS by Daesh The military defeat of Daesh in Iraq is in sight This is a momentous achievement reached as a result of collective effort among the diverse Iraqi forces and communities across the country We congratulate the Iraqi people the Iraqi government The Kurdistan Regional Government حيث يتلقق قطاع بشكل جيدا من دعاية their country ويطلب العام في تحديد المواقع الوصول على مواقع التحديد والسلاحات من حياتهم. الأمر يبقى الإسلام. وهذا ستكون الأمر بحيث أكبر في today's conversation. التحديد, التحديد, والقعية بعد هذه الأمر. أصبحت الكردسي. أعتقد أن نكون في الأجنة لنا أن نتحدث. إتراب الأصبحت على أرقاء بردشرار. إنستبليات يصل for the potential to lead to further conflict and even renewed violence. To preserve stability and peace, the military gains against Daesh must be consolidated through stabilization and peace building. Local and national reconciliation and continuous cooperation among all Iraqis will be the key ingredients contributing to the success of these efforts. الولايات mother has been working in Iraq since 2003 as we discussed to bolster the ability of Iraqis to hald communal violence, save lives, and build social cohesion. Over the last decade, the Institute has supported local dialogue initiatives which have succeeded in mitigating violence and conflict offering the safety and security Iraqis need to return to their homes. Thousands have returned to their homes in places like Turkorea في اجل هذه الأنشاتيسة. في الوقت today, the USIP is working with leaders from liberated areas such as Hawija, Talhafar, and Bartella to ensure sustainable inclusive security for their populations. The USIP also works with Iraq's minority communities to strengthen their participation in decisions that affect their safety, rights, and inclusion as integral parts of the Iraqi Society. Mr. Vice President, the USIP remains committed لتعمل معكم ، مع أراكي المنزلين ، ومع أراكي الناس في أقل من المنزل ، ومع سنة لتنهي العام لتأكيد التحديث عن الساعدة المنزلية للأراكي. نحن أسهل بأسرع لتسعرعنا المتحدث في العالم الأسرعي ونحن نعمل مع أراكي على هذه الأشياء الأسرعي. أسرعين ، أجل مرأة أسرعي ألن جافي هو أحد الذي سيقوم بلعب أمر أسرعي كما أسرع أسرعي يجب أن يجب أن ينظر المرأة يجب أن يكون رزاولت كما تتعامل المنطقة. هو one of three vice presidents of Iraq. Before his tenure as vice president, he was the speaker of Iraq's Council of Representatives for four years 2010 to 2014. He is also the secretary general of a newly established four Iraq United Party. The vice president is a native of Iraq's second largest city, Mosul. All of you know, Mosul was recently liberated from ISIS after three years of occupation and brutal rule. Today, the residents of Mosul and the Iraqi government are in the process of reconstructing and revitalizing this vibrant and historical city. Please join me in welcoming to the stage the vice president of Iraq, Osama Al-Jafi. I am happy to be with you today and that message is coming from a mental well-being and a heart that I believe in the problems that are confronting Iraq. These dishes are coming from terrorists. They are coming from terrorism and misunderstanding and agendas that would not serve the Iraqi citizen who is looking for peace and security. The experience that we passed within has proved that we are trying to activate all those problems that have passed by us and our nation believes that it has to be intermingled with the world community to work through the understanding of the Iraqi ideals and thoughts. Iraq has passed through difficult experiences represented in not respecting the constitution and contradicting the closers of the constitution and the mismanagement of the state and non-secure states being in the regions controlled by ISIS. The post-ISIS stage added many problems to us and posed threats on us through military actions and the project of the independence of Kurdistan has posed more challenges and conflicts and we have to deal with that to close these doors and there is a need for those intellectuals political intellectuals in Iraq to support the Iraqi nation to face all the challenges that the Iraqis have faced before which these challenges are the weakness of the nation the security challenges the regional interventions the destruction of the justice system the weak development and the disintegration the dislocation of the population and the growing of extremism and the spread of corruption any reform process in Iraq to consider the programs to overcome these challenges thus our vision to reform in Iraq is emanating from the necessity to have a national partnership and the Iraqis have to come together and agree on what they have disagreed before the partnership should be organized from the old factions of the society and minorities and for this reform project and it has to succeed through the around table conversations and the consensus the partnership and where to adhere to the following principles one to set up a constitutional system unified and guaranteeing everyone with the power in the federal union the political consensus so not one faction would take over the decision making and to keep all rights for the Iraqi nation accepting the new form of the Iraqi government that respects religion and every individual participating in the power and the wealth of the nation and to address all the needs of the people and addressing the problem of Kirkuk and the disputed areas by concentrating the administration of these areas to the hands of their peoples and protecting those who are vulnerable and protecting them from any attack or attrition the Iraqi constitution has paid a lot of attention to respecting religion and it's most important to respect all these aspirations of the people in their areas the council of union the supreme council of energy to engulf them in the essential required cooperation to protect it to offer the protection to all the regions and the safe return for those delegated individuals and to ensure that the demographic change will not happen and to ensure that the development plan which gives priority to provinces affected by terrorism and give them a necessary funding for that addressing the factors that have led to the mayhem and chaos and the emergence of terrorism and to safeguard the civil rights and safety for Iraqis to rebuild the institutions on professionalism and considering the balance with the military and security institutions adhering to the law protecting human rights releasing detainees speeding up cases and revealing the fate of kidnapped and those who have disappeared fighting the financial and administrative corruption this vision that has been agreed upon by most Iraqis is acceptable by all Iraqi factions God be with you Thank you شكراً جزيلاً على الملحظاتك وقد عطيتنا منظور ورؤية كيف تقدم ستقود one question about that but cards and if you don't you should if you don't we can get them to you so if you will take advantage of these cards pass them to نشية prime minister vice presidents so that's one way a kind of a mechanical way to bring all the voices in the second way is one you mentioned earlier which is through politics through political parties through elections and one question is whether or not there is a political party that can represent all these voices that represent Sunni voices represent Shia voices represent Kurdish voices other minority voices if there is a party that can represent that in these elections that are coming up next year there's a third way which you might have been hinting at I wasn't sure you mentioned a roundtable a partnership contract should be organized at a roundtable of all factions of the Iraqi people including minorities and I know that the UN Yunami has been working on a roundtable and so my question Mr. Vice President on this internal question is which of those three models is the right one to bring all of the Iraqi voices into the government is it through having designated positions is it a more a broader inclusive political party or is it a national dialogue a roundtable that Yunami is doing your thoughts شكرا لكم أنا بالتاكيد thank you definitely the first two cases that I mentioned have been tried during last years and there were disagreements and agreements and there were governments that were established and there are components that were distributed but the problems were not solved always we go back to the point the differences point what are what is the form of the nation what are the reforms what are the plans the solution as I am convinced is to be around the table where we talk and we review or the Sunni stand and explaining the disagreements and we have to come to a consensus to the new text not leaving the constitution to each point of view we have to have a national consensus and participation and the guarantee and auspices of the international strong international factor is very important because if we achieve the military component and the economic component without safety these are the procedures that were adopted during the last past years we have to sit around the table and we have to come to a consensus about the form of the state and how to implement the agreed upon constitution plus the existence of a guarantor who would guarantee that so the vulnerable people would feel the support of the international community and when Iraq failed and the administrative system failed to solve all these problems the terrorism afflicted the whole world not just Iraq but in Asia in Europe and the world is concerned with that and to solve the problems in Iraq and to prevent the problems and the insuance of disagreements we have tried the two solutions but we have to sit around the table and there has to be a new government and a new formation that would adopt all the principles that I mentioned in my speech and then a governmental program would come forward with a solution to solve all the problems of Iraq is the question how to implement the existing constitution the Iraqi constitution does not change but when adopting a certain mechanism through the Iraqi parliament and more than half the members have to approve the change and then the national referendum and when it's agreed upon two thirds of the provinces have to agree and nowadays it's difficult to achieve that but what we have the constitution we have we have to agree upon the clauses in it for example 112 the clause 112 explains the use of the wealth of oil for Kurdistan or for Iraq is not agreed upon this constitutional clause has to adopt a way that would entail who would take over the power in Baghdad and be very non aligned we have to see to the final form of the constitution and we have to tell everyone about his or her duties and responsibilities and this is the participation between everyone in this there needs to be some authority that guarantees that the constitution will be implemented that the rights of minorities are respected what do you have in mind as the entity the authority for that guarantor of course we tell the international the concerned international community this could be the UN through an international resolution that would take effect and the countries the member countries have to vote to this revolution through the security council and that would be obliging to all the Iraqis to be implemented and this is the only solution but just the UN alone doesn't have the enough authority to implement it's an opinion that could be taken or left this has to be on a high level of countries that can follow with the resolution and follow with the implementation I mentioned that Iraq is in a challenging region your neighbors are interested in Iraq and your neighbors are also threatening conflict the the potential conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran is now on our on our front pages of our newspapers sits in some sense in the middle Saudi Arabia majority Sunni Iran majority Shia Iraq multi-sectarium Sunni Shia Kurds minorities does the vice president of Iraq look at the potential conflict in the region between Saudi Arabia and Iran it's in the interest of Iraq to stay aside from any conflict in the area and the weak position of Iraq was exploited to present solutions to different countries and Iraq has become a field for conflicts and interferences which he has suffered from we have to get Iraq out of the conflict zone and these countries have interfered extensively in Iraq and it has tools in Iraq and it has interests trying to guarantee these interests in Iraq some of those interests is to let Iraq be weak with conflict within and with wars waged within the country it's true that these countries are fighting outside Iraq and they have their own tools and at the end they let Iraq to its fate any country that loves Iraq has to set herself away from Iran and from any other country and keeps Iraq independent and it has to keep all the Iraqi interests and mutual interests but to let these conflicts be waged through Iraq that's not right because there is a conflict between Iran and Iraq and Iran and the Arab countries and this I warn this could bring Iraq once more to a place of conflict and tension that would hurt consequently the whole world I have so many questions so thank you all for these it looks like there may be even more coming but they tend to fall into these two categories domestic and regional so let me stick with some of the domestic questions for the first question here is would you expect to see the creation of a Sunni regional government in Iraq in this new formula that you have described of course not this issue is not on the agenda this is not constitutional to establish the sectarianism we respect the constitution and the article 119 stipulates that we have to establish regions that are local regions in the area but this doesn't mean that we have to establish a region within the Christian faction or the Shi'a faction we have to have these provinces that enjoy the stipulations of the constitution we in this issue none of the Sunni leaders did not ask about this because it's irrational and illegal a question from Arita Mansour now that ISIS is almost defeated what does the Iraqi government plan on doing with the government sponsored militias that help defeat ISIS but that now want to directly get involved in politics of course there were militias before ISIS they existed for decades and some existed for 30 years and in fact it's the Iran who had established them and trained them since the Iraqi-Iranian war and they stayed as forming a militia that was protected by prominent entities in Iraq and outside the dissemination of armaments and tens of thousands joined and of course they shared in the conflicts and in the battles and some went and joined the army and under the prime minister's leadership some has no problems emanated from them some have affiliation and loyalty to the Iranian مرجعية and the Mr. Khamenei who is the murshid irani and they are fighting in Iraq and Syria not only inside Iraq and they are one part of the problem because they have gained a lot of power and maybe they can pose more problems of course there is a legislation that was established to prevent the coalition of groups and them being away from the political authority and power and this entity is called the popular massing these militias it's still there they have their own opinion they have their own political agenda their own and they have created a parallel army for the Iraqi army and this is very dangerous for the future of Iraq in our interest these have to be unified and the political affiliation has to be removed from it and being away from Iran so they would become an Iraqi force within the Iraqi army and not having a different agenda from a foreign or outside influence president politics of course comes up a very political issue are the elections coming up next spring there are a couple of questions surrounding the elections preparation for you mentioned the possibility of a new political force or front that might reach across the various boundaries and groups in Iraq that might be a political force that represents the minorities this has happened in the past in Iraq as we know and so two questions one is are the elections likely to happen next spring will Iraq be ready for those elections and if so will there be a new party that can try to represent many most Iraqis elections have been dated to start on May and this would require political economic security military input to help for setting up these elections first of all we have to put back that this placed people they are still in camps for migrants or outside Iraq or somewhere else they have to go back to Iraq and this can pose a problem for the election in the coming six months we have to re-establish the security infrastructure clean water electricity healthcare so people can go back to their homes this is not there another important element is that after militias have expanded and most of them are affiliated with political factions if these militias are still in these areas they are going to impose a political reality it's going to employ armaments and arms to impose its vision and impose the opinion on the elections and there will be no real no political reality on the society it will produce a disfigured reality and it will be worse than any previous stage and mayhem and conflict would prevail and chaos would prevail in the country if we are not successful in addressing that how are we going to establish the elections and the meaning is that this is going to become a very difficult stage in our history and the country could get involved in a more dangerous conflict than what is current many of the secret this is a possible as we have mentioned because this would ensue the round table talks and participation and coalition based on the specific points to form a national sphere that would include the Sunnis, the Shiites whatever coalition is that this is going to be a strong element being in the opposition which is going to produce peaceful means and to solve the problems and we can produce then theoretically these problems to solve the problems we need intellectual politicians we need the power that would help to this solution to prevail question comes how close are Iraq and the KRG to reaching a deal over new borders and what obstacles remain to those so those negotiations between Baghdad and Erbil-Sulmaniyah I believe this question was repeated Baghdad is a neighbor of the Shi'a Sulmaniyah and the KRG what has happened lately was a conflict between Baghdad and Erbil and that was caused by the referendum the illegal referendum and there is no clause in the constitution that allows for such a referendum or the separation I believe that this they thought the Kurds thought this is a suitable time to establish their independent place but they were thinking of taking the disputed areas which are vast superior to the areas that they have been inhabiting and they were trying to take these areas this is illegal and after the referendum formed a coalition an international coalition against Kurdistan even US Turkey were against Arab countries were against that and they supported the movement of the Iraqi armed forces who entered those disputed areas and they were able with the militias and the groups the Kurds with their militias and coalition with Iran they tried they succeeded in annexing these areas to the blue line and that was and some areas are still in Mosul and Rabia are adjacent to the Syrian-Turkish borders and part of these areas are still disputed and there is another story of Shkhabur the pipelines oil pipelines and the outer borders that relates conjoins Iraq to its neighbors there are some parties in Iraq they want to enter in Kurdistan and to the falling of the region and this is really unconstitutional and the law has to be abided by by all the Iraqi armed forces should abide by and there should be cooperation with Kurdistan and they should have clear specified rights in the constitution and the consensus between the two parties and the armed forces of course there are the dangers posed by more decline and deterioration and it poses a risk to unified Iraq and these regions that would become areas of conflict and facing between the people there on this topic the US has called for the joint administration I'm not sure it's the US but there is an international community has called for the joint administration of the disputed areas between Baghdad and the Kurdistan region do you agree with that call for joint administration and if so the questioner asks can you explain why it is not yet happening my conviction is based on my understanding of the constitution that the disputed areas have to be under a federal confederate entity and not under the power of a strange foreign power who controls the security and the lives of the people over there which include the questions the Arabs the other factions this doesn't mean that and the Iraqi army or the militias are to be deployed on the ground where is the decision that is emanating from the inhabitants of this area and this has to be decided by them the decision making has to be conclusively within the hands of the people there the federal and confederation is there the power is in the camps not on the streets or interfering within the civilian lives of the people to the regional dynamic that we've spoken about already as you would expect there are several questions here about the relationship between Iraq and Iran and let me I'll just read a couple of these what is the relationship to Iran today how is it affected by the Iran Saudi conflict which we have already discussed which is escalating more and more question about Iraq's position on Iran and the future relations with that country similar kind of a question this is from someone on twitter and he or she asks how would you describe your willingness to work with Iran on border security and infrastructure so as you can see general questions about and relationship infrastructure borders political relations the Saudi Iran in conflict of course there is a clear conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia and the other Arab countries and this affects Iraq in a different way Iran is a country that has managed to interfere in the Iraqi state through the militias and their training and it has an influence on the decision that is adopted by Iraq there is an element of the military element the economic element and the Iranian project is quite vivid and clear in the area they want to spread their control and this would go further to Syria and Lebanon and of course their dream is to control the whole Middle East and this is a point that is difficult to change unless there is an Iraqi government that would hold the principles tightly to set up a balance between Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey and the other neighboring Arabic countries and this would require the support from Saudi Arabia to have an embassy and this before the Arab were outside that balance USA was there but now USA encouraged the Arabs to get into Iraq and of course there are very interests and conviction by some Iraqis this is even a religious affiliation between them and Iran and this consensus did not improve the situation the Shia community is still there and the results were catastrophic for them they didn't feel stability they didn't feel economic development or even being proud of their national status some parties have military wings and they impose this fact through their relations with Iran and this is going to be changed by a majority parliamentary majority that have the influence to balance the Arabic Arabic-Turkish-American role to attain the aspired interests for all where these factions are represent do interfere through the mafia through the armaments through the militias and these all even for the Arab tribes these represent insecurity they represent interference it has to be an Iraqi decision implemented by the support of the international consensus to attain that solution then about other influence one is about Russian influence and the other is your opinion about the role of the United States so on Russia the question is with Russian influence extending into Iraq as demonstrated by Ross Neft's production deal do you see this as a concern moving forward and then I will ask a question about the US role but on the Russian role in Iraq of course the Russian role in Iraq is weak there is still some influence through the gas and pipe and the gas the gas industry still in Iraq but there is a relation between there is a relation between the armament and the Iraq buying these armaments but it's not on a huge scale it's limited and Russia supports the Iranian the Iranian Syrian axis in the region what has happened in Kurdistan lately the Kurds started to think about a more tight relation with Russia and from the USA even in Syria a lot of the faction started to seek the Russian support and this influence to influence the outcome of the conflict there are lots of opportunities for Russia there are lots of opportunities that Russia is trying to exploit for its interest we can say that the Russian role is not that evident in Iraq but we say that through lots of investments military deployment and the armaments we say that these military agreements could take place سؤالي الأخير one that many of us are interested in that you've heard already today that is what role do you think the United States should play in Iraq in the future in the United States of America after post ISIS period contributed directly in combating the terrorism and achieved important results and had more than before through society influencing the society in a big large degree helping the society military economically and politically now the American ambassador to Baghdad a few weeks ago he went to Fallujah and walked through the area and he was welcomed tremendously welcomed in the area but it's contrary to what has happened like 10 years ago that was a main feature for the Iraqi resistance at that time now the Iraqis accept the existence of the American forces when we have compared what has happened to us from the militias and the Iranian influence now the United States of America has more acceptance in Iraq now we have an important project the reconstruction the rebuilding of Iraq giving civilian society aids and helping the political national coalition that would help to get rid of extremism whether it's Iranian whether it's Kurdish whether it's other wise so we can start to reform Iraq with the help of the U.S. and to be transformed into a democratic country that would establish relations with Turkey Iran, the Arabs but a democratic entity and the United States of America can help us towards that and to enlighten the inspiration for people to get rid once and for all for all those terroristic extremism ideas and concepts that have been prevailed we wanted to have with you thank you very much for sharing your ideas and your vision going forward it's good to hear that the American ambassador was in Fallujah and was well received in Fallujah Others of us have been in Fallujah we weren't so well received so this is as you say this is progress the United States is very eager a great change a great change and change is often for the better not always but so ladies and gentlemen please join me in thanking the Vice President thank you ladies and gentlemen please remain in your seats until the official سيدات و سديتي ارجع المقوس اما كانوا