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Kirkuk (Kurdistan- Iraq) - Iraqi Kurdish
officials have suggested to the Turkmen Mps to
nominate one of them to be appointed as an assistant
governor of Al Ta'meem Province, whose capital is
the oil city of Kirkuk.
Razgar Ali, a local official in the Kurdistani
National Union, said, "We are suggesting five key
positions in the province council for our Arab and
Turkmen brothers. We suggest the position of
assistant governor and another position in the
council for the Turkmen, in addition to three other
positions for the Arabs.
After a mediation meeting in Kirkuk for the purpose
of the return of the Arab and Turkmen MPs who have
boycotted Al Ta'meem province council since last
February, he added, "The ball is not in their field.
They can appoint qualified persons for the
positions."
On the 30th of last January, 26 Kurds, 9 Turkmen,
and 6 Arabs were appointed as members in Al Ta'meem
province council, in an election process, in which
the Kurds who were deported from Kirkuk, during the
regime of the former president Saddam Hussein.
Kurdish movements demand the oil city of Kirkuk to
be an inseparable part of Iraqi Kurdistan.
The Kurds demand conversion to the former situation.
They consider that the least acceptable compensation
is to encourage the return of the displaced to their
former lands.
Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad) has about 850
thousand residents.
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