BAGHDAD, Aug. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- The Iraqi parliament cancelled a session on Thursday to vote on the country's draft constitution, an Iraqi official said.

Iraqi National Assembly will not meet Thursday to decide on the draft constitution and no date for a new session has been set.

    "The parliament session has been postponed without setting a new date...until meetings are finished and (leaders) reach an agreement on pending issues," an official with parliament media department told reporters.

    The draft constitution was presented to the parliament on Monday's deadline, but a vote on it was put off until Thursday in order to resolve some outstanding issues.

    However, the Sunni Arabs, the once dominant minority under Saddam Hussein, remained opposed to federalism which they feared could break up Iraq but was favored by the Kurds and Shiite Muslims who together dominated the parliament.

    The draft constitution must be approved by a simple majority of the 275-member National Assembly and then put to a referendum by Oct.15. The draft constitution will fail if two-thirds of voters in any three of Iraq's 18 provinces reject it. Enditem