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Dividing top posts among Iraq's Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds may be necessary to form an interim government, but keeping that formula after January's elections would break up the country, a Christian politician said.
Yonadam Kanna, a member of the US-appointed Governing Council, said late on Thursday the interim government due to take power on June 30 needed to address the concerns of ethnic and religious groups persecuted by Saddam Hussain.
But he warned that such a division in top posts was ultimately dangerous. "If you push in that direction you are dividing Iraq, and there will be no more Iraq. There will (be) Southistan, Middleistan and Kurdistan. We will never have stability. There will be ethnic conflicts, religious conflicts," he said.
The interim government is expected to include a three-man presidential council comprising a Shiite, a Kurd and a Sunni, officials in the US-led administration say. The post of prime minister is also likely to go to a Shiite, they say.
UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is in Iraq to help shape the interim government, whose main task will be to prepare for national assembly elections to be held in January 2005. Fewer than one million of Iraq's population of 26 million are Christian.
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