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VOA标准英语2010年-Iraqi Leaders Welcome Tentative Power

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Iraqi leaders have welcomed a tentative deal on a unity1 government that could end an eight-month political stalemate. A major hurdle2 appears overcome by including the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc3, but the potentially contentious4 division of cabinet posts still looms5 on the horizon.
Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani cautioned it could still be another month before politicians agree on how to appoint key ministerial positions. But for the moment, simply getting the two main contenders together is being seen as a milestone6.
Barzani, the regional president of Iraqi Kurdistan laid out how the top positions were divided, with current Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, leading an expanded, second-place alliance, retaining his post, and the Sunni-backed bloc of former prime minister Ayad Alawi taking leadership of parliament.
The largely ceremonial post of the presidency7 will stay in the hands of Kurdish politicians. The deal at least nominally8 includes all three major factions9, Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds, in Iraq's deeply divided political scene. Although Alawi's bloc took the most seats in the March elections, it failed to form a majority coalition10, leaving more religious Shi'ite parties and blocs11, some with strong anti-American leanings, to forge a formidable alliance.
Sunnis, who had boycotted12 elections in 2005, had hoped to see greater representation in a new government. But initial enthusiasm over their Iraqiya bloc's electoral success faded as the months of wrangling13 went on and violence began to fill the political void.
Barzani said Alawi, and by extension Sunnis, would have additional responsibilities as head of a national security council. But the duties, and even the name of the new body, remained vague. The Kurdish leader conceded the process had been filled with international and regional pressures, but recent progress showed Iraqis have to solve their own problems.
The United States, which has been drawing down its presence in the country, had been eager to see an equitable14 distribution of power so as to forestall15 further sectarian violence.
A White House advisor16, Anthony Blinken, welcomed the developments as a big step forward.


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