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Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief
31.10.2006
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Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region (Iraq), October
31,
2006
Project to connect Kurdistan region, provinces by
fiber optic
Iraqi Ministry of Contacts and Communications is
determined to implement an important strategic
project to
connect Kurdistan region with other country's
region.
The senior Eng. Adel Abdullah, the Director of
Communications and Kirkuk Post stated to as-Sabah
newspaper that the ministry had agreed on optic
cable lines project between Kirkuk and Sulaimaniyah
provinces with 2006 development plan.
Deutscher Hof celebrates traditional German
Oktoberfest in Erbil
October fest is not political, but a festival of
people to celebrate the reunion of East and West
Germany.
Holding a festival similar to the annual October
festival held in Munich, Germany, the German
restaurant Deutscher Hof in Erbil hosted a large
number of local guests and other foreigners living
in the city, last week. "It is like Charismas," a
foreigner said, who had come to celebrate the
occasion with one of his friends.
Oktoberfest is a two-week festival held each year in
Munich, during October. It is one of the most famous
events in Munich and the world's largest Festival.
About six million people attend every year. The
event is held during the 16 days up to and including
the first Sunday in October, but if this day is the
1st or 2nd then the festival will extend until the
October 3rd (German Unity Day). Beer plays an
important role in the festival. A special
Oktoberfest beer is brewed for the occasion, which
is slightly darker and stronger, in both taste and
alcohol. It is served in a one-liter-tankard called
Maß. Attendances also consume large quantities of
food, most of it traditional hearty fare such as
sausage, chicken, cheese noodles and sauerkraut,
along with such Bavarian delicacies as roast ox
tails....
Kurds to talk to Iraq on oil and budget
Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani will head
to Baghdad in the coming days, to broker a deal with
the central government on the divisive issues of oil
and budget that have tarnished the relations between
Baghdad and Erbil over the past few months,
government sources said.
Barzani is to meet with Iraqi President Jalal
Talabani, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and Oil
Minister Hussein al -Shahristani.
The visit comes at a time when the rifts between the
Iraqi and Kurdistan regional governments have grown
ever wider after the US-led invasion of the country
in 2003.
Kurdish officials have pre-warned that if their
talks with federal authorities reach a deadlock,
they may sue al- Maliki's government in an
International Court.
Government officials who were contacted by the Globe
refused to comment on the date of the trip or if the
Kurdish government has new solutions for these
outstanding problems.
Tensions emerged when Kurdistan Regional Government
signed oil deals with several foreign firms last
year and were further exacerbated as the KRG signed
more deals this year. That pushed the Oil Minister
al-Shahristani to threaten Kurds that their oil
deals are legally "invalid" and warned international
companies who sign deals with KRG that they will be
deprived of lucrative deals in other parts of Iraq.
In return, KRG PM issued a tough-worded statement
accusing al-Shahristani of sabotaging "foreign
investment in Kurdistan's oil sector" and
non-compliance with the national constitution...
A documentary film about Chemical Ali will be
screen on the 4.November.2006 on Belgium TV
Halabja, Kurdistan, --During six months director
Kawa Akrey and Production Manager Anwer Shekhan
started a journey from Zaxo to Basra South of Iraq,
document on Ali Hassan Al MajedL's atrocities.
After a year in production the film have been
screened on many Kurdish and Arabs TV network.
The definitive account of Saddam's use of chemical
weapons, and the atrocities his sidekick Chemical
Ali performed in the name of the Baath party.
Couple eyewitness accounts with rare archive, we
bring alive horrific reality of campaigns made
against his own people
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