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Iraqi president "Talabani" supports Kirkuk
proposal
16.7.2005
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BAGHDAD, Iraq
(UPI) -- Iraq`s interim President Jalal Talabani
supports a proposal to resolve a dispute over the
ethnic identity of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
Talabani recently met with an Arab delegation from
the northern city and blessed a proposal to allow
all ethnic residents originating from Kirkuk to
return to their hometown.
An official statement said the president stressed
finding a just solution to the issue of Kirkuk that
would "consolidate Arab-Kurdish brotherly links."
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President : Jalal Talabani (Mam Jalal) |
The Arab delegation from Kirkuk, where Arabs, Kurds
and ethnic Turkmen have lived for hundreds of years,
suggested all Arab Iraqis who moved to Kirkuk during
the Saddam Hussein regime be allowed to remain there
if they choose and to allow all the residents who
left to return, regardless of their ethnic
background.
Talabani, a Kurd, reportedly insisted Kurds did not
want to expel the Arabs from Kirkuk, "but at the
same time they oppose the policy of ethnic cleansing
and changing the demographic reality" of the city.
The Kurds have demanded Kirkuk become part of the
autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.
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