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Kurdistan parliament urges Bush: Ignore
Iraq Study Group recommendations
25.12.2006 |
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Erbil, Kurdistan
region (Iraq), December 25, -- President of Iraqi
Kurdistan National Council Adnan Al-Mufti urged
Monday US President George Bush not to take
seriously the recommendations of the Baker-Hamilton
Iraq Study Group.
In a letter addressed to Bush, the US senate and
congress and in the name of the Iraq Kurdistan
people, Mufti expressed the Kurdistan people's
resentment of the report because its recommendations
conflict with their interests in addition to beinga
a violation of the articles of the Iraqi
constitution.
"The tense Iraqi situation and the escalation of
violence especially in central Iraq has become an
issue of great concern for the Americans, the Iraqis
and all world nations and we are all looking for a
solution to this crisis," he added in his letter.
He said for this reason the "Iraq Study Group" was
formed and is led by former secretary of state James
Baker and Lee Hamilton and the Kurdistan people
thought it would be an objective study. |
Adnan Mufti, President of Iraqi Kurdistan National
Council |
"With all due respect to the members of this study
group, the Kurdistan people are opposed to a number
of articles in the report and the Kurdistan
parliament held on December 17 a private session to
evaluate the report," he added.
He explained that the report on one side indirectly
questioned the stand of the Kurdish political
leadership for being committed to the federal region
in a democratic Iraq.
He said for instance the report said that the Iraqi
flag is not raised in Kurdistan, stressing that the
Iraqi permanent constitution stipulates that a new
flag must be chosen to represent all factions and
not the current flag which reminds of the former
Baath party which witnessed massacres against the
Iraqi people.
None of the Iraq Study Group members paid a visit to
Kurdistan to study the situation there and "we
believe the report has ignored our black history
which we witnessed on the hands of the former Baath
regime" and the efforts to build a democratic
federal Iraq, he added.
This letter was handed to the representative of the
US embassy here and was written in light of the
December 17 session.
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