Chalabi elaborates four-pillar ruling system for emerging Iraqi gov't

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Chalabi elaborates four-pillar ruling system for emerging Iraqi gov't

Ahmad Chalabi, member of the Governing Council of Iraq installed by the Coalition Provisional Authority, on Thursday elaborated a four-pillar ruling system of a to-be Iraqi government.

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Ahmad Chalabi, member of the Governing Council of Iraq installed by the Coalition Provisional Authority, on Thursday elaborated a four-pillar ruling system of a to-be Iraqi government.

"The pillars of this system are, first, a separation of powers,by writhing a constitutional framework that ensures noninterference between the judicial, legislative, executive powers," Chalabi told world leaders at the annual high-level debate of the UN General Assembly.

In a newly revised US draft on Iraq, Chalabi's 25-member council was invited "to provide in cooperation with the authority and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General a timetable and program for the drafting of a new constitution."

This is the first time a member of the governing council ever explained what's their idea for the new constitution of Iraq.

"Second, ensuring accountability, starting with the above mentioned supervision and going through elections that form the main entry of the individual in participation in politics and finally arriving at empowering civil society through the free press, unions and independent institutions," he continued.

He then listed the third pillar for the ruling system as "transparency," saying it stands for the fundamental principle "stemming from the fact that the source of sovereignty is the citizen."

Further depicting his blueprint for ruling the war-torn country,Chalabi said the fourth pillar "is to respect the rights of the minority in relation to the majority."

He concluded that a "representative, federal political system can best express the interests of all Iraqi citizens."

With the collapse of former regime ruled by Saddam, the Governing Council is waiting impatiently to take over part of the governing right, when the total control of the oil-rich country seems unreachable, at least currently.

But the occupying power would not simply give up its "provisional authority." The United States said clearly in the newly revised draft on Iraq that the administration of Iraq can only be undertaken "progressively" by the evolving structures of the Iraqi interim administration, and the Coalition Provisional Authority will continue its practice of transferring "as quickly as practicable," which means no date can be set for the foreseeable future.

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