The Iraqi government will focus on rebuilding infrastructure, healing sectarian divisions and bolstering the security forces in order to stabilise the country, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said in an article published Friday.
Maliki announced his three-point strategy in a column in The Times, a day after he announced the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Al Qaeda leader in Iraq, and the completion of the government formed after December's elections. "The completion of the national unity government (Thursday) in Iraq marks the starting point for repaying Iraqis' commitment to and thirst for democracy," Maliki wrote in a column in The Times of London. "This government will build on the additional momentum gained from the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to defeat terrorism and sectarianism, and to deliver on the Iraqi people's hope of a united, stable and prosperous democracy," he added. |