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From Iraq the Model:

In a press conference that just ended in Baghdad, Jawad Al-Maliki and Jalal Addin Al-Saghir (CDC members from the United Alliance) said that the Sunni politicians still have reservations on federalism but they expected that the draft will easily get the approval of 2rds of the Assembly members.

"Frankly speaking, we cannot wait for the Sunni forever; we have a deadline to respect and if they don't agree with what was written in the draft they can say that in the referendum but we're still having talks with the Sunni politicians" said Jalal Addin (3rd image).

Regarding Islam and the constitution: it was agreed upon that no laws that are against the widely agreed upon values of Islam can be issued and no laws that are against the values of democracy and human rights can be issued.
Natural resources according to the draft will be managed in cooperation between the central government and the local administrations of the federal states/provinces.

"...Regarding Islam and the constitution: it was agreed upon that no laws that are against the widely agreed upon values of Islam can be issued and no laws that are against the values of democracy and human rights can be issued...."

It seems to me that these two are mutually exclusive which then makes this statement neutral.

I can't remember the book I read this in, but there was a particularly amusing part of this fictitious story where an ambassador had been dispatched for several days during which time a recording had been of everything which had been said during the entire stay. The recording was analyzed by experts who crossed off everything which was negated by something else. When they were finished they were surprised to find that there was nothing left and he had not said a thing during the entire time.