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Various, parliament meeting2. Various, members of parliament voting 3. Various, votes being counted 4. Members congratulating interim Iraqi president elect Jalal Talabani5. Wide shot, members of Iraqi National...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eBaghdad - April 6, 2005\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various, parliament meeting\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various, members of parliament voting \u003cbr/\u003e3. Various, votes being counted \u003cbr/\u003e4. Members congratulating interim Iraqi president elect Jalal Talabani\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide shot, members of Iraqi National Assembly \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jalal Talabani, interim Iraqi president elect:\u003cbr/\u003e''The multi-national forces came to Iraq to liberate Iraq from dictatorship. And when we build up our troops, we will ask the foreign troops to leave the country.''  \u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide shot, Talabani \u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jalal Talabani, interim Iraqi president elect:\u003cbr/\u003e''We are studying the issue of detainees and we are endeavouring for releasing the prisoners. I personally have already intervened to set free the detained (radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-) Sadr followers. And we will try to release all the detainees who are not convicted with any accusation.''\u003cbr/\u003e9. Media\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jalal Talabani, interim Iraqi president elect:\u003cbr/\u003e''God willing, our brothers in the National Assembly (Parliament) will endorse a new flag for the Iraqi people coping with this stage.'' \u003cbr/\u003eBaghdad - April 6, 2005\u003cbr/\u003e11. People watching TV \u003cbr/\u003e12. TV picture, Parliament members choosing president and two vice presidents\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Voxpop, Kurdish citizen (No name given):\u003cbr/\u003e''We are very pleased. There was no difference between Arabs and Kurds. All Iraqis are proud and boasted with electing the President and his deputies.'' \u003cbr/\u003e13. Members of parliament on TV \u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Jassim Mutlaq, Baghdad citizen:\u003cbr/\u003e''There was no difference between Arabs, Kurds or Shiites. All of them are Iraqis and we are proud of them.'' \u003cbr/\u003e15. People watching TV \u003cbr/\u003eBaghdad - April 6, 2005\u003cbr/\u003e16. Exterior of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan led by Talabani \u003cbr/\u003e17. Sign on building saying 'Patriotic Union of Kurdistan'\u003cbr/\u003e18. Kurds celebrating outside building \u003cbr/\u003e19. Man holding picture of Talabani\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Voxpop (No name given):\u003cbr/\u003e''We congratulate the whole Iraqi people. And this indicates Arab-Kurdish fraternity. And when Talabani was elected, this means victory to the whole Iraqi people.'' \u003cbr/\u003e21. Kurds celebrating outside building\u003cbr/\u003eAPTN File\u003cbr/\u003eUnknown location - Recent\u003cbr/\u003e22. Talabani sitting down\u003cbr/\u003e23. Talabani\u003cbr/\u003eHalabja - March 16, 2004\u003cbr/\u003e24. Paul Bremer, former Coalition Administrator in Iraq and Talabani, walking\u003cbr/\u003eSuleymaniah - April 6, 2005\u003cbr/\u003e25. Man holding picture of Talabani \u003cbr/\u003e26. Car with flowers and picture of Talabani\u003cbr/\u003e27. Cars with Iraqi flags on display driving past\u003cbr/\u003e28. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Roulat Bakr, Kurd:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I am very happy. This joy only the Kurds can understand because it is the first time in history we have a Kurdish president.\"\u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Voxpop, Kurd (No name given):\u003cbr/\u003e\"We're very happy. This is our day. This is our day.\"\u003cbr/\u003e30. Various, cars with pictures of Talabani\u003cbr/\u003e31. Soldier firing gun into the air\u003cbr/\u003eThe Iraqi parliament chose Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as the country's new interim president on Wednesday, reaching out to the nation's long-repressed Kurdish minority and bringing the country closer to its first democratically elected government in 50 years.\u003cbr/\u003eTalabani's election sparked celebrations in his hometown of Suleymaniah in northern Iraq.\u003cbr/\u003eShiite Adel Abdul-Mahdi and interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawer, a Sunni Arab, were also chosen as Talabani's two vice presidents.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter weeks of negotiations, the three were the only candidates and received a total of 227 votes. \u003cbr/\u003e30 ballots were left blank.\u003cbr/\u003eThe announcement that Talabani won drew applause, and many lawmakers crowded around him to offer congratulations. \u003cbr/\u003eTalabani was expected to be sworn in to his post on Thursday, then name Shiite leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari prime minister, clearing the way for talks on a new constitution that must be completed by August 15.\u003cbr/\u003eThe constitution, along with elections for a permanent government scheduled for December, are all central parts to the US government's eventual pullout. \u003cbr/\u003eOusted members of the country's former regime - including toppled leader Saddam Hussein - were allowed to watch the event on televisions in their prison cells, Iraqi officials said.       \u003cbr/\u003eIn his first press conference as president, Talabani said the multi-national troops would be asked to leave Iraq as soon as it's own troops had the capability to defend the country.\u003cbr/\u003eHe also said that he would endeavour to release all unconvicted prisoners, particularly politicians.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe Kurdish-led coalition won 75 of the 275 parliament seats in the January 30 elections, a major victory for a group that spent years fighting Saddam's regime.\u003cbr/\u003eKurds make up 20 percent of the country's 26 (m) million people; Shiites make up 60 percent and the Sunni Arabs are roughly 15 to 20 percent.\u003cbr/\u003eOn Thursday lawmakers plan to name Shiite leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari prime minister. \u003cbr/\u003eLawmakers have also started discussions on candidates to serve in the Cabinet.\u003cbr/\u003eThere was a positive reaction amongst Iraqis to the vote, who emphasised that there was no difference between the different religious groups represented in the Iraqi parliament.\u003cbr/\u003eIraqi Kurds in Baghdad celebrated the result in front of the Headquarters of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in the city.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is one of two key Kurdish parties in Iraq.\u003cbr/\u003eBorn in 1933, Talabani joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party as a teenager and then founded the PUK in 1975. \u003cbr/\u003eHe helped lead the Kurdish fight in Iraq's north against former dictator Saddam Hussein.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the Kurdish north, which had led uprisings against Saddam, 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