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Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief
7.10.2006
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Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region (Iraq), October
7,
2006
Destroying documents proof of changes in Kirkuk
demography
Immediately after the liberation of Iraq unknown
group burned a number of documents that proved the
changing demographics in Kirkuk.
Immediately after the liberation of Iraq and the
establishment of the first Iraqi transitional
government, an unknown group burned a number of
documents that proved the falsification of changing
demographics in Kirkuk, Abubakir Sediq head of
'Article 140 Committee' said.
The documents showed that Kurds, Turkomans, and
Assyrians in Kirkuk had been forced to change their
identity to Arab by the former Ba'athist regime.
"The burning of those documents would place a
barrier for the committee to undertake Article 140.
According to the information we have, more than
70,000 dossiers were burned in the statistics
headquarters in Kirkuk. The Article 140 Committee
will investigate the burning of the documents."
Dispute over oil won't separate Kurdistan from
Iraq- Allawi
Iyad Allawi declared that disputes over oil revenues
in the Kurdistan Region will not bring about the
region's separation from the Iraqi central
government.
Iyad Allawi, former Iraqi PM and head of the Iraqi
List, declared that disputes over oil revenues in
the Kurdistan Region and the Kurdistan Regional
Government's (KRG's) efforts to develop its oil
potentials will not bring about the region's
separation from the Iraqi central government.
Allawi added that producing oil is one of the
subjects well noted in the Iraqi permanent
constitution, and that immediate legislation should
be introduced to deal with this issue in the
country.
The Iraqi Minister of Oil, Hussein Shahristani, said
earlier that Baghdad will not approve of KRG
packages with foreign companies to produce oil in
its region, a statement described by KRG Premier
Nechirvan Barzani as a constitutional violation.
Premier Barzani said that by staying within the
Iraqi central government, KRG was honoring the terms
of the permanent constitution. If the constitution
was to be violated, Barzani had warned, KRG would
consider other options.
Obstacles remain to implement Article 140
there are still a number of obstacles standing in
the way of the implementation of the Article 140.
Following the return from Baghdad, Kirkuk City
Provisional Council Abubakir Sediq said there are
still a number of obstacles standing in the way of
the implementation of the Article 140.
According to Sediq, obstacles included the lack of
the required budget for the so called '140
committee' to function; technicalities and staffing
problems; the disappearance of nearly 70,000 files
of individuals who underwent nationality change
during the reign of the former Iraqi regime; and the
incompletion of the committee's main office in
Baghdad.
Sediq said they visited the registry office in
Kirkuk to get complete statistics of all those who
underwent forcible change of nationality during the
Ba'ath regime, and were advised by the office that a
special committee from Baghdad who had visited the
office three months following Operation Iraqi
Freedom had taken some 70,000 files of
nationality-change dossiers and burned them, a
process witnessed by the office staff. The files
were of Kurds, Turkomans, and Assyrians, who were
forced to change their nationalities when Saddam was
in power.
The Article 140 Committee is currently in the
process of identifying the group from Baghdad that
destroyed those dossiers, yet another challenge for
the committee, according to Sediq.
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