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Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief
4.10.2006 - update 1 |
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Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region (Iraq), October
4,
2006
Residency card for foreigners in Kurdistan Region
The Directorate of Passports and Residence in the
Kurdistan region is to issue five-year residency
permits to all foreign individuals who work or live
in Kurdistan region.
A statement from the Directorate of Passports and
Residence in Suleimaniyah announced that individuals
carrying the residency card can use it to get their
formal paperwork going at any or all the regional
government offices and foundations.
Individuals interesting in applying should visit the
Passport and Residency Office, according to the
announcement.
Dutch lawyer to defend Anfal case in Iraq
Lesbis Zeinchfiled, a Dutch lawyer from Amsterdam
who has defended the case of two gas-attack victim
cities of Halabja (in Iraq) and Sardasht (in Iran)
at the international court of the Haag, has voiced
readiness to come to Iraq and defend the Anfal case
against Saddam Hussein as well.
"We have managed to convince the Dutch lawyer to
come to Iraq and defend the Anfal case in the Iraqi
Criminal Court, and the Dutch lawyer has voiced
readiness to do it," said Omar Mohamed, head of CHAK,
the anti-genocide organization in Halabja that
caters to those people who fell victim to the gas
attack on the city in the spring of 1988 by the
former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.
"We are going to send a formal request to the KRG
and the Ministry of Anfal and Martyrs to assist the
CHAK organization by accepting the financial and
security responsibility of the lawyer," added Omar.
A Delegation from Italian workers syndicate
visits Kurdistan Region
A delegation from the Italian Workers Syndicate
arrived in Kurdistan Region last week to visit
Sulaimaniyah and meet with their peers from the
Kurdistan Workers Syndicate, reported PUK media.
The visit, aimed at finding potential investment
areas in Kurdistan Region, followed a formal
invitation from the Kurdistan Workers Syndicate to
the delegation from Italy.
"The delegation includes a number of high-ranking
officials from the Italian Workers Syndicate who are
to visit a number of factories in Kurdistan Region
to learn close-up about the situation of workers in
Kurdistan Region and get to know the organizational
and managerial systems of our syndicate," the head
of Higher Committee of Kurdistan Workers Syndicate
Sardar Rashid told PUK media.
Rashid also said that further stops while visiting
delegation include Sulaimaniyah Municipality,
Sulaimaniyah Provisional Council, and the parliament
of the KRG in Erbil.
Kirkuk Director of Passport Office relocated
The Iraqi General Directorate of Passports in
Baghdad has decided to temporarily close the
Directorate of Passport Office in Kirkuk and
relocate the director of the office to Sulaimaniyah,
local media reported last week.
Kurds have described the decision from Baghdad as a
chauvinistic move against the soon-to-be-relocated
director, who is a Kurdish national and has returned
to Kirkuk after Operation Iraqi Freedom.
In an statement, Colonel Younis Sleman Kakayi, the
director of the Passport Office in Kirkuk, said that
he had received similar orders earlier from Baghdad
only to be rejected by the Kirkuk City Provisional
Council.
Kakayi said that the last decision from Baghdad
accused his office of taking bribes and corruption
in the process of issuing passports. Kakayi called
the accusations unfounded and added that the Probity
Committee office in Kirkuk has well been aware of
his performance and that the committee has never
accused his office of even the smallest sign of
corruption.
A special dossier has been prepared to investigate
the decision by the Iraqi General Directorate of
Passports in Baghdad, according to a source from the
Kirkuk City Provisional Council.
KRG Prepares draft of oil sales
KRG’s Minister of Natural Resources, Ashti Hawrami,
said that his government is working on a draft for
oil sales that enables regional governments to
handle the sales directly with purchasing companies.
In a statement to Al-Sabah paper, Hawrami said that
the KRG had voiced full readiness to cooperate with
Baghdad in the process of running the nine oil
fields in the Kurdish region that the minister said
solely belonged to the regional government.
On the other hand, Helky Idy, head of the Norwegian
OND company that specializes in the oil-drilling
industry, said that his company was expecting to
drill for crude oil in the Kurdistan region
beginning in 2007.
Erbil landscape should look like world metropolis
Kurdistan PM met with a number of representative
from the Governorate Office of Erbil to discuss
about the development of Kurdistan region capital.
Nechirvan Barzani, Prime Minister of the Kurdistan
Regional Government (KRG), met last week with a
number of officials and representatives from the
Governorate Office of Erbil to discuss mechanisms to
further develop the regional capital into an ideal
metropolitan city.
In the meeting, projects that are currently being
implemented were shown in a computerized graphic
presentation and discussed in detail.
Later in a press briefing, the Premier answered a
number of questions and announced to the attendees
that he was to go to Baghdad to discuss the current
hotly debated issues such as the implementation of
Article #140 of the Iraqi permanent constitution to
normalize the situations in Kirkuk, fuel supply
shortage, and the regional budget.
With a daily Output of 5,000 Barrels of Crude
Oil, Taq Taq Is Now Operational
General Energy, a joint Turkish-Canadian company,
recently finished drilling work at the Taq Taq Oil
field, 79 kilometres from Erbil.
The new oil field is now producing 5,000 barrels of
crude oil per day, and the company has started to
drill at another site next to Taq Taq.
"The joint Turkish-Canadian company finished the Taq
Taq oilfield project last Wednesday, September 27,
and the company just started drilling for the second
oilfield in the same area," Said Rasheed Khoshnaw,
the director of the Special Projects Board in the
Kurdistan Region.
Khoshnaw added that as per a contract with the KRG,
the joint company is expected to have drilled three
oilfields by the end of the year 2006 in the same
area with a daily capacity of producing 20,000
barrels of crude oil.
Kurds involved in de-mining activities in Lebanon
The British Mine Awareness Group has sent 19 Kurdish
mine specialists from the Iraqi Kurdistan Region to
Lebanon to participate in de-mining activities and
removing explosives.
Thousands of Lebanese civilians are now under the
threat of mines and unexploded war ordnance from the
latest Lebanon-Israel conflict.
As in any other war-ravaged areas, one of the first
significant steps in the post-conflict situation in
Lebanon has been the import of foreign expertise in
the field of mines and explosives.
Supported by the UN and the Lebanese government, at
this time, the British Mine Awareness Group is the
only organization working in Lebanon.
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