His remarks come with the country mired in a political row, with an arrest warrant out for Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, and Shiite Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party....
calling for the sacking of his Sunni deputy after the latter called him a dictator "worse than Saddam Hussein."
Iraqiya, the mostly Sunni-backed political bloc of Hashemi and deputy premier Saleh al-Mutlak, has boycotted parliament and the cabinet in protest at Maliki's alleged centralization of power.
"Mr. Tareq al-Hashemi is in the hospitality of the president of the republic," a statement from Talabani's office said.
"Hashemi will appear in front of justice at anytime and anywhere in the country where there will be reassurances regarding the processes of justice, investigation and trial."
The statement did not specify what specific reassurances would be required.
Iraq's political crisis, coupled with a spate of attacks on Thursday in Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
which killed 60 people, has heightened sectarian tensions in the country less than a week after U.S. troops completed their withdrawal.
Hashemi, who has disputed the charges, meanwhile, blamed collusion within the government and security forces for Thursday's violence, the deadliest in more than four months.
"This style of terrorist attack, it's well beyond even al-Qaeda to do it," he told the BBC's Persian Service in comments published on Saturday.
"What has been done is well-organized, the people who plant all these explosives. They went freely, without any obstacles, regardless of many checkpoints that we do have, and simultaneously all these car booms and explosives went off in one time."
He continued: "Those who were behind all these kabooms and incidents (were a) part in the security of the government. I'm sure about that."
On Friday, Hashemi blamed Maliki for starting "a national crisis, and it's not easy to control" and likened the premier's behavior to that of now-executed dictator Saddam Hussein.
Earlier on Saturday, anti-U.S. Shiite holy man
Moqtada Tateral-Sadr
... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah...
launched an "honor convention" which called for national unity and peace in Iraq following the U.S. withdrawal.
The pact was signed by numerous politicians, academics and tribal leaders.