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Barzani adheres to Kirkuk's belonging to
Kurdistan region
23.7.2005
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Arbil - Masud Barzani, a Kurdish leader and
president of Iraqi Kurdistan region, has reconfirmed
that Kirkuk is a part of Iraqi Kurdistan. Meanwhile,
he called for converting it to "a model city for
national and sectarian coexistence".
The day before yesterday evening, during his
reception of the city council members, Barzani said,
"Kirkuk's issue is sensitive. Everyone should handle
it with reasoning."
He added, "The remaining of the current situation in
Kirkuk is unacceptable by Kurds. There is an
agreement and commitments in the state
administration code for the interim period, which
all the parties should abide by." |
President of Kurdistan
Region Government Masoud Barzani |
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Barzani is referring here to the Kurds' demands for
the return of the residents, whom Saddam Hussein's
regime has deported from Kirkuk, or receiving fair
compensations through a logical time limit and
allowing the Arabs who settled there to find land in
their original homeland.
Barzani has reconfirmed, "Geographically and
historically, Kirkuk is a part of Iraqi Kurdistan."
Nevertheless, he added that admitting this fact does
not mean that Kirkuk is only for Kurds, but it is
for the Kurds, Turkmen, Kildo-Assyrians and the
original Arabs. He stressed the necessity of
converting this city to a model city for national
and sectarian coexistence.
As regards the demand of Arabs and Turkmen for
creating the province council on basis of accord,
Barzani said, "I wonder when I see some people in
the new Iraq handling the issue of Kirkuk in the
same former chauvinistic mentality." He added, "We
would not accept that.
Those people have to handle the issue of Kirkuk in a
realistic manner." He considered that those, who are
speaking from behind the curtain of accord, should
know that the accord should be established on
logical basis and belief in the federation and
democracy.
AFP
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