Interim Governing Council to continue in case elections are delayed

Kurdish member in the Interim Governing Council, Jalal al-Talibani, expected the council to continue ruling Iraq if elections will not be made before June 30 this year, the date when the authority will be handed over to the Iraqis.

In statements to the press on Saturday, following his meeting with the Shiite clergy Ayatullah Ali al-Seistani in al-Najaf, to the south of Iraq, al-Talibani stressed that sovereignty will be transferred to the Interim Council of no provisional government will be formed, according to elections.

Meantime, the rotating president of the interim governing council, Mohsin Abdul Hamid, ruled out the eruption of a civil war in Iraq. He said that fears lie in those who provoke sectarianism with the aim of partitioning Iraq.