AMMAN: Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi urged the United States to come up with a roadmap to end the ongoing crisis in Iraq, warning that the deteriorating situation could impact neighboring countries.
Allawi told local reporters that “if the situation continues to deteriorate, the concept of national unity will weaken. This will have a great impact on Iraq and will move to the neighboring countries, Europe and America,” he said.
He said the new constitution and elections expected in December were steps to prevent the political and security situations in Iraq from completely deteriorating. Allawi said he discussed the matter of a roadmap with US President George W. Bush and other world leaders, urging them to put “plans and programs in place to end this situation.”
He also called for intensifying dialogue with some groups in Iraq whom he preferred to call “opposition and not resistance.”
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