Al-Sharif Ali movement boycotts Irbil meetings

A group representing the Iraqi opposition announced it will boycott the already postponed meeting for the Iraqi opposition which was due yesterday in Irbil, a main Kurdistani city. Also another group intends not to take part in this meeting of the follow up and coordination committee of the Iraqi opposition which was expected to be held since weeks in Kurdistan, north Iraq, to discuss the aftermath of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

The leader of the movement for "Constitutional Monarchy," al-Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein, said from London that the movement whose aim is to restore the monarchy to Iraq after its toppling in 1958 "will not take part in Irbil meeting." He announced that his movement opposes the measure not to form a preliminary committee to draw a timetable for the follow up committee which was formed at the London's opposition conference in December 2002.

Meantime, the Hawalati paper which is issued in Irbil said that the "movement for constitutional monarchy and the movement for national understanding" will boycott Irbil meeting because they support the formation of an American military government after toppling Saddam Hussein regime.