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non-partisan Kurdish delegation from North America,
Europe and Kurdistan will meet with the United
Nations officials in New York on Wednesday,
December 22, to handover more than two million
signatures collected from Kurds in Iraq.
As the Kurdish population in the Kurdistan Region
under the current Transitional Administrative Law,
are encouraged to participate in the January
election, concerns about their future safety and
welfare remains unresolved. Decades and centuries of
racist practices and suffocating cultural policies
by central governments ruling Kurdistan is the
ground on which the Kurdish people, in particular
Kurds in Iraq, base their legitimate concerns.
Since the founding of the state of Iraq, the Kurdish
people with struggle and strife have in the past,
reached agreements with the central government in
Baghdad. These agreements were abrogated once the
central government had gained sufficient power, and
subsequently violated all norms of human decency and
international law, even under the watching eyes of
regional and international communities.
In January 2005, the Kurds will conduct the first
free election to elect the Kurdistan National
Assembly under the current Transitional Law, with
the hope that this time history will not be
repeated. In the post election period and during the
formation of an Iraqi constituent assembly to draft
a new constitution, the consensus among Kurds is to
seek the support of the United Nations to be the
guarantor of a new accord between the Kurds and the
Arab-dominated government of Iraq.
Furthermore, motivated and inspired by the principle
of equal rights and self-determination of the
people, a non-partisan Kurdish group known as the
Kurdistan Referendum Movement, under extremely
difficult and imperfect conditions, has gathered a
petition with over two million votes. This movement
speaks of the real desire of the Kurdish people in
the Kurdistan Region for freedom and independence.
In consideration of these developments, and taking
pride in the fact that the Kurdish people are
determined to attain their legitimate rights through
peaceful, non-violent and democratic process, the
Kurdish delegation has requested a meeting at the
United Nations to convey the following calls by the
Kurds:
1- For the United Nations to receive a
non-partisan Kurdish delegation to discuss the
electoral process in Kurdistan, and to submit to the
United Nations a copy of the petition collected by
the Kurdistan Referendum Movement.
2- For the United Nations to dispatch a
delegation to Kurdistan to survey the true will of
the Kurdish people in the Kurdistan Region in
determining their future, and fairly preserving free
and democratic rights in both the pre and post
election periods in January.
3- For the United Nations to provide
assistance to the Kurdish delegation to address
issues of concern to the Kurds, and how to attain
democratic rights for the Kurds in a peaceful,
non-violent and democratic way.
Kurdistan Referendum Movement
Contact person e-mails:
1. North of America : besarani22@msn.com
2. Europe : lajan1001@yahoo.comm
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