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Hamoudi: Adding to the Iraqi constitution
is possible, but omission or amendment is unacceptable
3.10.2005
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Mr. Hammam Hamoudi, head
of the constitutional committee, announced that the
demand on behalf of some political forces for adding
two statements in the constitution stating, "Iraq is
one country and the constitution maintains this
unity." and "Affirming the use of Arabic in
Kurdistan region"
As regards the third demand, it states that any
"addition" in the constitution "should be through
two-thirds of the votes of the National Assembly,
and not through the plebiscite."
Hamoudi clarified that these demands are mere
amendments of the said text in the constitution
draft and that there are accord and agreement on the
basics and core of the written draft components. He
referred to the nonexistence of disagreement among
most of the political forces in this regard. He
added that amendments and omissions in the
constitution are not acceptable, "but what is
possible is inserting (a new addition) into the
text."
On his behalf, Imad Ahmed, a member of the Kurdish
Democratic Party, said, "They desire that the
establishment of a new region in Iraq obtains
two-thirds of the National Assembly members'
approval."
It is worth mentioning that the constitution project
includes flexible mechanisms for establishing
federal regions, which may arouse conservations on
behalf of some identities, with regard to the
declaration of a nucleus of a state rich in oil
resources in the south.
On his behalf, Zalmay Khalilzad, US ambassador, has
played the role of a representative for making the
amendments, which some identities requested
including them in the text, despite the submission
of the "final version" of the constitution on
September 18 to the United Nations for printing.
Khalilzad has quoted the suggestions of the parties
that he had dialogue with, to Mr. Abdel Aziz Al
Hakim, head of the Coalition Bloc, before heading to
Kurdistan, where he met with President Jalal
Talabani, Massoud Barzani, regional president, for
discussing the submitted issue of the new amendments
of the text.
Al Mushreq
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